X at OLS
Posted Jul 23, 2004 14:29 UTC (Fri) by
rjw (guest, #10415)
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X at OLS by emlix
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X at OLS
You are an idiot.
However:
1. BDF files are being converted to TTF bitmap files.
2. Xorg is being Halified, and the idea is to make all configuration occur automatically via hotplugging, with the users settings only used for override.
3. What? This is the login manager ( xdm, gdm, kdm etc) or just you being stupid. I'll guess the latter.
4. There is no "new font extension". Text rendering has moved client side. So if you *really* want to write your own text rendering, you are welcome to. However, both Qt and Pango have very advanced multilingual rendering capabilities included - so use that. Xft2 is absolutely fine for rendering positioned glyphs - positioning them is the job of higher level libraries. But a convenience api is provided to allow writing Latin1 strings. What a crime!
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