On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 01:23:58PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, February 03, 2018 11:10:06 AM pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:02:10AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I guess it could be: > > > * our eyes trained differently > > > * our eyes function differently--I have astigmatism, but it is > > > corrected by > > > > > > my glasses so I don't think that is a factor > > > > > > * different tools on our computers render the fonts differently? (I'm > > > not > > > > > > sure I know what, in the end, actually renders the fonts on my > > > computer--is it X (assuming my Wheezy installation is using X), or is it > > > different for different apps? > > > > X is only used for font rendering in old applications like xterm. > > Modern applications on GNU operating systems use HarfBuzz. > > I said I wasn't going to post anymore, but I'm interested--I tried ps -Al } > grep HarfBuzz (and harfbuzz) on my Debian Wheezy system with kde--no sign of > it--does KDE use something else? >
KDE uses Qt which uses HarfBuzz. You can see it in the dependencies at https://packages.debian.org/sid/libqt5gui5 However HarfBuzz is not a separate process but runs as part of the graphical application (it is a library), so you do not see it in ps -Al. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk