Greetings. On Sat, 11 May 2013 08:56:03 +0200 Johannes Hofmann <johannes.hofm...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > as others also have noticed, Xft based st starts slow on some > systems. For me it helps if FcFontSort() is done lazily as shown > below.
Thanks for the patch, it improves the startup time. This still does not solve the ugliness of fontconfig and what crap the whole Linux graphics stack is. X11: pango on top of cairo on top of fontconfig and xft on top of x11. Plan 9: libdraw Paper: just works Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
