Re: --export w/o $DISPLAY?

[Cyrille Chepelov <chepelov calixo net>]

Le jeu, sep 06, 2001, à 04:12:43 -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:

> > Conceptually, it's not complicated at all: just find the width of a text
> > in a given font. Technically, well, I'm waiting for patches, because this
> > is beyond my capacity.
>
> Check the FreeType mailing list archives, some other program does this
> (kludgily) by looking for the font.dir files in some standard places.

This is why I'd prefer delegate this stuff to a font manager like defoma....

> My freetype code uses XGetFontPath, which also requires a display.

... but is this all it needs a display for (barring, obviously, the
rendering step) ?

        --- Cyrille

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