On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:49:50 -0500, James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding is that when a (server-side) font is opened by the > X server it must determine all of the glyphs' metrics, which requires > rendering all of them.
I think this is not true -- it seems to be exactly this behavior which -deferglyphs stops. Without -deferglyphs, there was indeed a noticeable freeze when using a CJK font for the first time; I've not encountered this freeze since. Debian has had -deferglyphs as the default for quite a long time (e.g. if you use gdm, in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf); perhaps other distros do not. Can xft still use bitmap fonts? In the case of CJK, the commonly available X bitmap fonts do seem to be generally more attractive at typical text-editor size than what freetype produces for commonly[*] available scaled fonts. [*] By commonly available, I really mean "free and packaged in Debian" ... Not the best definition I suppose, but maybe indicative of what a typical lazy user like me sees... I'm all for xft BTW; don't let my sniping give you the opposite impression... :-) -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
