Re: Slow Rendering?

[Brett Granger <bdgranger alum mit edu>]

A quick grep of the source code (gdk/x11/gdkpango-x11.c) shows that the 
environment variable you really want is GDK_USE_XFT, not GDK_ENABLE_XFT. 
 I don't know whether that will make any difference to what you're 
seeing, but it can't hurt to try.

--Brett

Dennie, Brooke wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sven Neumann [mailto:sven gimp org]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:30 AM
> > To: Dennie, Brooke
> > Cc: 'gtk-list gnome org'
> > Subject: Re: Slow Rendering?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> writes:
> >
> >
> > > Unless you set GDK_ENABLE_XFT to 0 explicitely, you are using the
> > > PangoXft backend then. Font configuration is done using fontconfig.
> > > Please check the fontconfig user documentation at
> > >
> > > http://pdx.freedesktop.org/~fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
> >
> > Sorry, I confused your answer with another thread where a user was
> > asking for information about font configuration.
>
>
> Oh good, I was beginning to wonder if I'd suddenly lost my
> mind...
>
>
> > The answer to your question about speed issues on remote displays is
> > that you could try to use X11 core fonts by setting the environment
> > variable GDK_ENABLE_XFT to 0. This would disable antialiased fonts
> > which are likely causing your speed issues. Does your X-Server
> > implement the RENDER extension?
>
>
> Hrmm. Setting the variable didn't seem to make much of a 
> difference. The application now takes ~12s, but popups sped 
> up to ~3s
>
> RENDER isn't implemented as far as I know since I get to see
> the "extension RENDER missing" error every time I run my 
> program :D
>
> Any other ideas? Thanks again!
>
> Brooke
>
>
> > Sven
>
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