From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Whats the default font in Acme?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 22:45:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <008C9DE9-BCB9-4AAF-BC72-95760A74D5D9@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALAsyW3Aysa4e+PA_4M+cuYun8eDXPce3njn729nxNg7qLcgTA@mail.gmail.com>
On Feb 18, 2021, at 10:32 PM, Mark van Atten <vanattenmark@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 10:04, Skip Tavakkolian
> <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Plan9port has fontsrv. Any truetype you have on your system is usable.
>> man fontsrv for details.
>
> On my system (Arch 5.10.16) using fontsrv introduces 2-3 second delays
> whenever a program needs to know about the font,
> e.g. when opening acme the window first turns all black and then all
> white before the columns appear; similarly, lc always takes about
> 2 seconds before the listing appears.
>
> Do others observe this, too?
Even running acme on a FreeBSD host & displaying it on a MBP screen
there was no perceptible delay. May be you have a slow disk? You can
do "strace -r fontsrv" to see where time is being spent.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-17 19:06 bombart
2021-02-17 19:14 ` sirjofri
2021-02-17 19:38 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-17 20:07 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-18 0:53 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-02-19 6:41 ` Conor Williams
2021-02-18 6:14 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-02-18 8:31 ` bombart
2021-02-18 9:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-02-18 11:04 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-02-19 6:32 ` Mark van Atten
2021-02-19 6:44 ` Conor Williams
2021-02-19 6:49 ` Conor Williams
2021-02-20 6:45 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2021-02-20 12:04 ` Mark van Atten
2021-02-20 15:26 ` Russ Cox
2021-02-20 17:31 ` Mark van Atten
2021-02-21 1:22 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-02-21 1:27 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-03-07 14:23 ` Mark van Atten
2021-02-20 0:58 ` [9fans] " cigar562hfsp952fans
2021-02-20 3:47 ` [9fans] " Bakul Shah
2021-02-20 4:21 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-02-20 4:50 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-20 5:45 ` Mark van Atten
2021-02-18 8:41 ` bombart
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