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XCB is missing support for some important extensions, though. Such as Xft, so you can't display modern anti-aliased fonts (unless you somehow use Xlib at the sa

by ptx 5y ago

XCB is missing support for some important extensions, though. Such as Xft, so you can't display modern anti-aliased fonts (unless you somehow use Xlib at the same as XCB, I think?).

fulafel 5y ago
Tje Xft library is all about rendering the fonts on client side - it does use the Render extension but that's supported by xcb.
- ptx 5y ago
  Ah, I guess I was thinking of libxft. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent for XCB, so you'd have to connect all the parts on your own.