On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:42:33AM +0900, Pontus Stenetorp wrote:
> My intuition is that it is related to font loading and fall backs, so
> I am tempted to take a stab at it by comparing the font
> loading/handling between tabbed, dwm, st, and sent to see if I can
> spot any difference, as the latt
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 08:08:21PM +0600, NRK wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:42:33AM +0900, Pontus Stenetorp wrote:
> > My intuition is that it is related to font loading and fall backs, so
> > I am tempted to take a stab at it by comparing the font
> > loading/handling between tabbed, dwm, st
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:50:14PM +0200, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> Then write a patch to improve it instead of whining about it.
The topic was font fallback; I adviced not to replicate drw, explained
my reasoning why, and then adviced to look into ST instead.
I don't see any whining.
- NRK
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 09:11:03PM +0600, NRK wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:50:14PM +0200, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> > Then write a patch to improve it instead of whining about it.
>
> The topic was font fallback; I adviced not to replicate drw, explained
> my reasoning why, and then adviced
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 05:36:31PM +0200, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> "
> The font fallback in dwm and dmenu is handled via libsl (i.e drw.c) and
> it's a huge mess [0].
>
> The way it works is also very inefficient (it calls XftFontMatch() for
> every single "unknown" code-point). The `nomatches` ca
On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 22:23:44 +0600
NRK wrote:
Dear NRK,
> The "proper" way (IMO) would be to build up a list of fonts which
> would be capable of representing as many code-points available in the
> system *right at startup* - instead of checking each unknown
> code-point as we go.
>
> This way
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:23:44PM +0600, NRK wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 05:36:31PM +0200, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> > "
> > The font fallback in dwm and dmenu is handled via libsl (i.e drw.c) and
> > it's a huge mess [0].
> >
> > The way it works is also very inefficient (it calls XftFontMat
