Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:35 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: The future of X? Message-ID: <20031114040935.GB58520@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20031114034634.GA3086@online.fr> References: <20031113233628.GA56182@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031114002204.GA1035@online.fr> <20031114004740.GA56759@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031114034634.GA3086@online.fr>
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--3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:46:34PM -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > [XFree86 antialiasing] > > It's too slow to use on my sparc64 machine (rendering e.g. large text > > files in mozilla takes up to 60 seconds, which is hardly acceptable). > > An ultra30 is hardly a speed demon thesedays, but it's not that slow. >=20 > Must be some strange bug on sparc64, do the XFree86 people know about > it? I've used it happily on a 400 MHz P-II. =20 It's easy to measure an inordinate CPU increase on pretty much anything - e.g. run an xterm with anti-aliased fonts and stream output to it, and watch the CPU use skyrocket. > > It's too blurry to read clearly on my 14" monitor (Windows is fine). >=20 > Well much depends on the monitor. If you claim that the same fonts, > antialiased on both systems, are fine on windows and not on XFree86, > that's definitely a problem. Yes. > But perhaps windows doesn't anti-alias > them. I can see the difference between 'smoothed' and not. > You can disable antialiasing in fonts.conf or $HOME/.fonts.conf > for, say, fonts below 12pt with something like Yes, that's what I did. Kris --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/tFV+Wry0BWjoQKURAgj4AKDFVv0qRlGl7vEjNYUSfZG5cUrfwACePgpI cM6ymE7ZR5hTUIgydkybsuQ= =wy79 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ--
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