On 12/ 9/13 01:34 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
That largely eliminated X terminals as viable display devices, because they rarely had more than just enough memory to hold the display and a few fonts, and couldn't cope with hundreds of megabytes of offscreen drawables.
Also, anti-aliased fonts are rendered client side and then the full color images (including the alpha-channel to blend with the background to produce the anti-aliased effect) of the characters uploaded to the server to display. I don't think gtk/gnome have any option to use the old client-side font system anymore, though I do know Sun Ray server admins often turn off anti-aliasing for reduced memory usage & improved performance. In fact, the upstream Solaris JDS packages have a multi-user-desktop package that contains a number of tuning options designed to reduce memory usage and improve performance for Sun Ray servers - some of them may help on low-powered single user desktops as well - you can see info about what that sets and how on http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26032/osdme.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
