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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Anti-alias fonts and slowness in KDE2.2+X4.1.0
From:       Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson () home ! com>
Date:       2001-09-03 17:03:14
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On Monday 03 September 2001 03:12 am, Akar th' 'orrible wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:25, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > I have a URL (http://www.dexterslabs.com/danny/xft.html) that
> > says it is a problem with X 4.0.3 and that it is a problem with
> > font caching that it supposed to be fixed in CVS.  Since I'm
> > using X 4.1.0, does this still apply to my situation?
> >
> > Is this a X or KDE problem?
>
> It is an X problem, but Xfree4.1 has fixed the problem. It should
> always be a bit slower but even with xfree4.01-03 it was not huge. ie
> on my system konq took 2 secs at that time without AA compared to 3-4
> seconds with. This time would increase if you had a huge number of AA
> fonts, but that is what was supposed to be fixed in xfree4.1.
> You should also use QT 2.3.1 because changes were made in there as
> well.

I should have mentioned that I'm using libqt2-2.3.1-8mdk.

> You should also install Kfontinstall and keep only needed fonts in
> your active AA directories and add others as needed on the fly.

This is definitely a limitation...
Is Kfontinstall install a 3rd-party program?

> Andrew

-- 
Mon Sep  3 12:00:11 2001
Seq.  Timestamp                    Uptime
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 1: Mon Jul 16 16:28:17 2001  -  43 07:21:59 - 2.4.6-3mdk
 2: Thu May 17 01:44:04 2001  -  35 15:31:51 - 2.4.3-20mdk
 3: Thu Jun 21 17:33:18 2001  -  10 05:29:02 - 2.4.3-20mdk
 4: Sun Jul  1 23:03:05 2001  -   7 10:13:18 - 2.4.3-20mdk
 5: Wed Jul 11 15:11:11 2001  -   5 01:16:26 - 2.4.6-3mdk
 9: Sun Sep  2 21:41:05 2001  -   0 14:18:58 - 2.4.9 <<--
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