Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:39:29 +0200, 
Sebastian Kapfer <sebastian_kapfer@web.de> wrote in message 
<[🔎] pan.2003.09.16.13.39.28.978520@gammaray.dyndns.org>:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:30:10 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> > on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Nathan Poznick
> > (poznick@conwaycorp.net) wrote:
> >
> >> Just out of curiosity, are you using antialiased fonts?  If so,
> >> have you tried disabling them?  It very well may not give you any
> >> difference in performance, but if I'm thinking properly the
> >> antialiasing will be happening on the client end (i.e., the slow
> >> machine), which could in theory cause some icky slowness.
> > 
> > I am, I think.  Where would I check?
> 
> Try launching
> 
> 	GDK_USE_XFT=0 galeon
> 
> This makes Galeon use X core fonts. It's probably ugly as hell, but
> might well be faster.

..this ofcourse requires restarting galeon? 

..I have a possibly similar issue with Sylpheed in KDE, with 
HUGE standard fonts, everything else is ok, speed too, where 
do I check?

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