Quoting John Toon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi,
Hi, Please try running without xfs, to verify if the problem also happens. In that case, it is not a xfs problem. It may be also a good idea to recompile xfs, with "-g -DDEBUG", and run it under gdb. If you debug xfs, please, also make sure you are running the latest CVS version. > It seems that I've hit a problem with the X Font Server and Kword. > > I have a large number of TrueType fonts installed on my system (just > over > 1000). > > Under KWord the font selection drop down box gives a preview of every > font. > Whenver I scroll quickly up and down the list, xfs crashes! (And > subsequently, KWord, too). > > I'm running X 4.1.0-4 and xfs 4.1.0-4. I'm surprised that I'm hitting > this > problem, since if I reduce the number of fonts available then the > problem > disappears - but surely a specialised font server should be able to > handle > 1000 fonts? > > Also, does the XFt anti-aliasing extension support caching yet? If I > switch > anti-aliasing on under KDE, the font listings goes a bit screwy > (everything > after fonts starting with 'c' preview, incorrectly, with the same font) > and > applications take an unacceptable time to load. The last time I read > about > the AA extension, apparently it would re-parse all the fonts every time > an > application requested them (i.e. every time you start up a typical > application). It's such a shame, since with AA everything looks _so_ > nice... > > My machine is a 1Ghz Athlon with 1GB of RAM. > > John. > _______________________________________________ > Fonts mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts Paulo _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
