[opensource-dev] SL2 font problem on linux

Tayra Dagostino tayra.dagostino at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 11:44:08 PDT 2010


On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:58:30 +0100
Tofu Linden <tofu at lindenlab.com> wrote:

> On your system it's trying to load 103 system fonts for full unicode
> coverage (on my system it's 43 fonts, which also seems huge so I
> never dreamed of testing with 100+).
> Not a huge problem in itself, but the current font system is hugely
> wasteful of resources and Linux's font autoprobing can return
> arbitrarily long lists of fonts.
> In the longer term I'd like to make the font system more efficient
> (it's currently loading each of these fonts... multiple times each,
> for various sizes and styles :( ) but in the short term for Viewer2
> I'll limit the fallback font list to something like the top 20 most
> useful system fonts.
> Thanks for the report!

removed quite all fonts, now i have less than 64 fonts... SL2 works....
(58 font installed)


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