I wonder why this was sent in private to you Shachar, anyway, this was not meant to be private :) בThursday 03 June 2004 00:04, נכתב על ידי Diego Iastrubni: > בWednesday 02 June 2004 20:41, כתבת: > > I tried installing msttcorefonts on the client, and the problem was > > solved. I'm confused, however. The client is not running X, why should > > it even care what fonts are installed there? > > That is how fontconfig works. It looks for fonts in the local machine > (using config from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf). > > Then instead of using X calls to draw the strings on the screen, it uses > freetype calls to draw the strings on the client side instead of the old > traditional server side method. > > As far as I understood this is also MUCH faster, since the app knows the > metrics of the fonts and does not have to calculate them on runtimes > according to the measurements sent by the X server. > > > Running Mozilla-firebird exhibited the same symptoms exactly. Is that a > > Debian thing? > > Same thing.
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