Re: [dev] st slow startup

From: Sanel Zukan <sanelz_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 10:22:38 +0200

> X11: pango on top of cairo on top of fontconfig and xft on top of x11.

The thing is how given stack works for Gtk+ and/or apps using directly Pango.
However, there are alternatives, like FLTK (http://fltk.org) which relies only
on Xft drawing...

Sanel

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> On Sat, 11 May 2013 08:56:03 +0200 Johannes Hofmann <Johannes.Hofmann_AT_gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> as others also have noticed, Xft based st starts slow on some
>> systems. For me it helps if FcFontSort() is done lazily as shown
>> below.
>
> Thanks for the patch, it improves the startup time. This still does not
> solve the ugliness of fontconfig and what crap the whole Linux graphics
> stack is.
>
> X11: pango on top of cairo on top of fontconfig and xft on top of x11.
> Plan 9: libdraw
> Paper: just works
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph Lohmann
>
>
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