On Saturday, February 03, 2018 11:10:06 AM pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:02:10AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > I guess it could be: > > * our eyes trained differently > > * our eyes function differently--I have astigmatism, but it is > > corrected by > > > > my glasses so I don't think that is a factor > > > > * different tools on our computers render the fonts differently? (I'm > > not > > > > sure I know what, in the end, actually renders the fonts on my > > computer--is it X (assuming my Wheezy installation is using X), or is it > > different for different apps? > > X is only used for font rendering in old applications like xterm. > Modern applications on GNU operating systems use HarfBuzz.
I said I wasn't going to post anymore, but I'm interested--I tried ps -Al } grep HarfBuzz (and harfbuzz) on my Debian Wheezy system with kde--no sign of it--does KDE use something else? _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
