RE: How to use X fonts in my GTK appication?

["Tom Liu" <tom liu flextrade com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gtk-app-devel-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gtk-app-devel-list-
> bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Maciej Katafiasz
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:19 PM
> To: Tom Liu
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: How to use X fonts in my GTK appication?
>
> Dnia 04-11-2004, czw o godzinie 15:05 -0500, Tom Liu napisał:
> > I want to use X Server font in my Gtk application, becasuse server
font
> > is much faster.
> >
> > For example: How can I use the font in pango?
> >     -misc-fixed-bold-i-normal-*-120-100-100-*-*-*-*
> >
> > I try to put the following line in my
$(sysconfdif)pango/pangox_alias
> > myfont normal normal normal \
> >     "-misc-fixed-bold-i-normal-*-120-100-100-*-*-*-*"
> >
> > looks it doesn't work. Anybody can help me?
>
> Pango no longer supports core X fonts, the only backend (on X, anyway)
> is xft nowadays. So whatever you do to pangox.alias file, it's not
going
> to have any effect on pango
>
> Cheers,
> Maciej

Then how do I use the Xserver font? The Xclient font is more than 100
times slow.

I know some font in pango is faster than others. For example: 
On my system. Font Fixed is much faster than font Sans.
> From what I know, the Fixed font is on the XServer side. that why.

Thanks.

Tom.