From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is font fallback slow over X11/ssh? Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 09:13:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="5329"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:qhcc3+SvByc0kiQa43j3I5UNlSY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 31 15:14:07 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jfNmw-0001HF-5U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 May 2020 15:14:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56282 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfNmv-0003Ap-6r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 May 2020 09:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfNmZ-0003Ai-5g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2020 09:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:49710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfNmY-0001Ir-88 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2020 09:13:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jfNmV-0000tz-JT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2020 15:13:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=159.69.161.202; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/31 09:13:40 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123208 Archived-At: >> Is font fallback slow over X11/ssh? > FWIW, yes, it is. And thatʼs one of my reasons to prefer server-side font > rendering for remote Emacs sessions. I. e. something like: > $ emacs --xrm='Emacs.fontBackend: x' Interesting. Do you have some explanation for why you find it more useful for remote sessions? Have you tried to *disable* the `x` fontBackend instead? Stefan