On Feb 18, 2021, at 10:32 PM, Mark van Atten <vanattenm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 10:04, Skip Tavakkolian > <skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Plan9port has fontsrv. Any truetype you have on your system is usable. >> man fontsrv for details. > > On my system (Arch 5.10.16) using fontsrv introduces 2-3 second delays > whenever a program needs to know about the font, > e.g. when opening acme the window first turns all black and then all > white before the columns appear; similarly, lc always takes about > 2 seconds before the listing appears. > > Do others observe this, too?
Even running acme on a FreeBSD host & displaying it on a MBP screen there was no perceptible delay. May be you have a slow disk? You can do "strace -r fontsrv" to see where time is being spent. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td0ab6c3112c95493-M8dcd2309bc3456de4dce079c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
