Re: wxt terminal in windows hangs

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello

I also experienced long time wait on the wxt terminal on windows 7 starter.
>From second time, I have never waited so long.

Regards

Tatsuro 

--- Allin Cottrell  wrote:

> 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
> 
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