Re: Slight problem w/ fonts

[Adam Fedor]

Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Adam Fedor wrote:
>
> > Chris B. Vetter wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Another problem is, however, if you have lots of fonts ( > 6000 in my
> > > case), re-creating the font-cache will completely freeze (no mouse
> > > movements, can't even switch to a console) my machine (a K7-700 with
> > > 512Meg) for about 20 minutes ... then font-cacher will dump a core,
> > > about 6Meg in size ...
> > > This happens _only_ if I run xfstt, though. Weird, bug, feature?
> > I talked to other people who have problems with TrueType fonts and
> > font_cacher. It would be interesting if we could make the GSFontMask
> > feature of font_cacher work so you could incrementally add fonts -
> > perhaps it could solve this problem.
>
> It would be rather simple to allow for multiple entries in this mask, e.
> g. separated by ";". If anybody thinks that this will help a bit I will
> add this, I don't think that the semicolon is a common character in a
> font name. I could also try to avoid loading a X font, when the same
> font was already loaded for a different size. For this to work we will
> have to rely on the name returned by the XListFonts function, which
> might actually be an alias.

I suppose we should really test if adding TrueType fonts by themselves 
causes the X server to crash or it is mutiple things that cause it to crash.



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