I'm working on trying to speed up dmenu rendering in some edgecases. I've sent a patch to the hackers ML about line-length effecting performance.
A second issue I'm noticing is that the line within drw.c: FcPatternAddBool(fcpattern, FC_SCALABLE, FcTrue); will cause vast rendering slowdowns based on the input charset. A good example to try is the text in this chinese ebook: curl 'https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24264/24264-0.txt' | dmenu -l 30 -fn Terminus-10 If you set FC_SCALABLE to FcFalse, it seems then the characters are rendered and things are instant (as they should be). So should FC_SCALABLE being FcFalse / unset be the default? Is there another way to speed up rendering outside of dmenu's scope if not? Miles
