Around 5 o'clock on Sep 4, "Sprague, IT3" wrote:
> xie - I'm not entirely certain
The X Imaging Extension. Badly designed and horribly implemented. There
must be a better way to improve image display in XFree86.
> pex5 - this is an old 3D extension, which, AFAIK, nothing uses anymore,
> preferring glx/OpenGL instead. I'm not sure why it's still hanging around.
Both XIE and PEX are in the process of being deprecated by XFree86. The
code will continue to ship for the forseable future, but default builds
will no longer include them.
> font server - this handles some font stuff, freeing up the X server. I'm not
> sure how beneficial it is on a workstation, but it's a logical way to make a
> common set of fonts available to a network of machines running X.
Necessary before the X server gained built-in TrueType support. Useful in
that it allows the X server to keep running while rasterizing large fonts.
Wasteful in that you've got two complete copies of every font loaded in
memory on your machine. Many people turn it off these days and access
TrueType fonts directly from the X server. Most modern machines are fast
enough that you don't really notice any delays.
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