Remote X

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 23:33 -0800, Corbin Simpson wrote: 
> In theory, sure, but I don't think I've ever seen anybody actually
> have any problems with this. In my experience the glyph cache is
> actually too big sometimes; when doing 3D drivers, if I accidentally
> clobber my cache, I need to go open up a character map and scroll
> through a dozen fonts to clear it.

That's the EXA glyph cache pixmap, whereas Russell was presumably
referring to the generic RENDER mechanism of the X server caching glyph
data uploaded by the clients (which is currently done by storing each
cached glyph in a pixmap of its own). I agree with others though that
his concern seems rather hypothetical.


> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Russell Shaw <rjshaw at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Is remote execution of X clients away from the X server still regarded
> > as a design goal, or does everyone just develop for client applications
> > that only run on or close to the X server machine?
> >
> > With a unicode text widget, every time a character is entered, the
> > line or paragraph(s) need to be moved and/or reshaped. This can mean
> > sending a few largish bitmaps for every key press. Other toolkits
> > may add new polygon tesselated glyphs to the XRender cache:
> >
> > http://www.keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2001/
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/renderproto/plain/renderproto.txt
> >
> > With a cursive font, all the cursive glyphs on a line could compress
> > when the line is close to full, but before the need for a linebreak.
> > That would stress out the cache advantage of XRender. Another problem
> > with XRender is that it's computationally expensive for small systems
> > without polygon hardware.
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> 
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