> X11: pango on top of cairo on top of fontconfig and xft on top of x11.
The thing is how given stack works for Gtk+ and/or apps using directly Pango. However, there are alternatives, like FLTK (http://fltk.org) which relies only on Xft drawing... Sanel On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > 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 > >
