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LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Posted Apr 20, 2012 11:45 UTC (Fri) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland by cortana
Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

You misunderstood what I wrote: they render the font on the client, send the image of the letters *once* on the server, and can now display text very efficiently from a bandwith POV (all this if the XServer has the XRender extension).


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