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Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?

April 26, 2017rendering speed

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Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?

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Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, as it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to disable antialiasing (by appending “:antialias=false”), which saves lots of memory and also speeds up rendering considerably.