[Arm-netbook] Alt Webpage & Logo Combo

[rhkramer at gmail.com]

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?