Hi, Is remote execution of X clients away from the X server still regarded as a design goal, or does everyone just develop for client applications that only run on or close to the X server machine?
With a unicode text widget, every time a character is entered, the line or paragraph(s) need to be moved and/or reshaped. This can mean sending a few largish bitmaps for every key press. Other toolkits may add new polygon tesselated glyphs to the XRender cache: http://www.keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2001/ http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/renderproto/plain/renderproto.txt With a cursive font, all the cursive glyphs on a line could compress when the line is close to full, but before the need for a linebreak. That would stress out the cache advantage of XRender. Another problem with XRender is that it's computationally expensive for small systems without polygon hardware. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
