Re: wxt terminal in windows hangs

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >
> > My bet is that fc-cache runs in the background to regenerate font
> > index "every now and then", so that one can use any given font on the
> > system.

(and this can take a looong time).

I notice that in gnuplot's cp_cairo.c there's a comment (around
line 690) about "working around a bug in the cairo/win32 backend
for font rendering": the work-around involves gp_cairo on Windows
using the freetype + fontconfig backend by preference to the win32
backend.  Following Mojca's lead, this could explain the initial
long wait for gnuplot output.

I'm wondering, is the cairo bug in question still there?
Unfortunately the comment is not specific (no bugzille ID). But if
the issue is fixed in current cairo it could be worth making a
change. Cairo's win32 backend doesn't have the problem of a long
wait on first use.

Allin Cottrell