Re: Slight problem w/ fonts

[Adam Fedor]

Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> Another problem is, however, if you have lots of fonts ( > 6000 in my
> case), re-creating the font-cache will completely freeze (no mouse
> movements, can't even switch to a console) my machine (a K7-700 with
> 512Meg) for about 20 minutes ... then font-cacher will dump a core,
> about 6Meg in size ...
> This happens _only_ if I run xfstt, though. Weird, bug, feature?

I talked to other people who have problems with TrueType fonts and 
font_cacher. It would be interesting if we could make the GSFontMask 
feature of font_cacher work so you could incrementally add fonts - 
perhaps it could solve this problem.

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