[Arm-netbook] Alt Webpage & Logo Combo

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 01:23:58PM -0500, rhkramer at gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, February 03, 2018 11:10:06 AM pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:02:10AM -0500, rhkramer at gmail.com wrote:
> > > I guess it could be:
> > >    * our eyes trained differently
> > >    * our eyes function differently--I have astigmatism, but it is
> > >    corrected by
> > > 
> > > my glasses so I don't think that is a factor
> > > 
> > >    * different tools on our computers render the fonts differently?  (I'm
> > >    not
> > > 
> > > sure I know what, in the end, actually renders the fonts on my
> > > computer--is it X (assuming my Wheezy installation is using X), or is it
> > > different for different apps?
> > 
> > X is only used for font rendering in old applications like xterm.
> > Modern applications on GNU operating systems use HarfBuzz.
> 
> I said I wasn't going to post anymore, but I'm interested--I tried ps -Al } 
> grep HarfBuzz (and harfbuzz) on my Debian Wheezy system with kde--no sign of 
> it--does KDE use something else?
> 

KDE uses Qt which uses HarfBuzz.  You can see it in the dependencies at

https://packages.debian.org/sid/libqt5gui5

However HarfBuzz is not a separate process but runs as part of the
graphical application (it is a library), so you do not see it in
ps -Al.