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Registered: 2009-05-06

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dwm laggy with terminus-font-otb

I recently tried to switch to the otb version of the terminus font. After bulding dwm with it, it became noticeable slow. I.e. when starting Firefox a couple of gui elements would appear before the rest of the browser and fast switching between dwm tags multiple times could take a couple of seconds. For now I've rebuild dwm with terminus-font and dwm is blazing fast again.

I'm using the i915 Intel driver without any manual xorg configuration. Has anyone any idea about how to fix that?

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Re: dwm laggy with terminus-font-otb

Why would you want to use the otb font with dwm?  Dwm does not use pango for fonts/text-layout.  So just use terminus-font.

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Re: dwm laggy with terminus-font-otb

I tried to build it with the otb font because I need it anyway for applications that are actually using pango. I don't see the point of having the same font installed twice if all applications theoretically can use the otb format.

The computer that has this problem is a Carbon X1 Gen 5 with an core-I7 with integrated graphics. At work I'm using a ThinkCentre Edge with an core-I5 with integrated graphics without any problems.