On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Alexander Polakov wrote:
* Anselm R Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080909 17:01]:2008/9/9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Hello there. It's my first mail on this ML. I wonder if there is any possibility to use xft fonts in dwm. Becouse this patch http://koluthcka.ru/fwm/dwm-4.7-xft.diff doesn't work for me.I guess this patch just needs to be upgraded to apply with vanilla dwm-5.2. Otherwise I think it should work fine.It definetely *should* work fine, but it had not worked *well* ever, because it wasa quick hack.
I tried adding pango+xft support because bitmap CJK fonts suck, and also just to see how much bloat pango adds. Here's what I found on Debian-stable-x86:
Resident ResShared
core X 1.2M 1.0M
Xft 2.3M 1.8M (+ more depending on fonts)
pango+xft 4.2M 2.9M (+ more depending on fonts)
Note that Xft by itself is a step backwards, because it doesn't help
you with character encodings, while core X does.
So for another 1.1M of non-shared memory (~ 1 bash instance), you too can have both your English text and J-pop song titles rendered in all their fuzzy glory.
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