On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:18:01AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: > Is remote execution of X clients away from the X server still regarded > as a design goal, or does everyone just develop for client applications > that only run on or close to the X server machine? > > With a unicode text widget, every time a character is entered, the > line or paragraph(s) need to be moved and/or reshaped. This can mean > sending a few largish bitmaps for every key press. Other toolkits > may add new polygon tesselated glyphs to the XRender cache: > > http://www.keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2001/ > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/renderproto/plain/renderproto.txt > > With a cursive font, all the cursive glyphs on a line could compress > when the line is close to full, but before the need for a linebreak. > That would stress out the cache advantage of XRender. Another problem > with XRender is that it's computationally expensive for small systems > without polygon hardware.
As always, if you are facing any actual particular problem, bug reports and patches are more than welcome.
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