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		aidenn0 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The X Window System didn't immediately have X term... It's much worse. Now fonts are rendered in the client then streamed over the network to the server as bitmaps.

ianburrell 5 months ago [–]

XRender extension can load font glyphs into the X server and do the rendering locally. But that requires the browser, the X client, to know about this and not do rendering itself.

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