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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:37 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] i3 and urxvt - Delay when opening new terminals Reply with quote

Hey, I am a new Gentoo user. I am using i3 wm with urxvt terminal emulator. When I open a new terminal in i3 using alt+enter, there is a significant delay before the new terminal appears.
In my .Xresources file, I am setting the font using xft:
Code:
URxvt*font: xft:liberation mono:size=25

When I remove this line and set the font using XLFD:
Code:
URxvt.font: -*-liberation mono-*-r-*-*-25-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*

The delay disappears and new terminals open very quickly.
The letters on my screen appear jagged (no anti aliasing) when I set the font using XLFD. They appear smooth when I set the font using xft (yes anti aliasing). When I tried using kitty as my terminal emulator, I ran into the exact same delay problem when opening new terminals, but I did not try to fix it. I would like to find out how to get rid of the delay.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have any blur or transparency going on? If so I assume you are using a compositor? Your XFT font setting appears correct, for reference mine is below and I have no issues. Also after any changes remember to xrdb ~/.Xresources which I am sure you know already.

***My Example
!Inconsolata
URxvt.font: xft:Inconsolata-14
URxvt.boldFont: xft:Inconsolata-14
URxvt.letterSpace: -1
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could be some USE flags not enabled.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Do you have any blur or transparency going on? If so I assume you are using a compositor? Your XFT font setting appears correct, for reference mine is below and I have no issues. Also after any changes remember to xrdb ~/.Xresources which I am sure you know already.

***My Example
!Inconsolata
URxvt.font: xft:Inconsolata-14
URxvt.boldFont: xft:Inconsolata-14
URxvt.letterSpace: -1

I have not set up a compositor yet, I plan to do that next. Do you think using a compositor help the issue?
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Could be some USE flags not enabled.

These are my USE flags for urxvt -
Code:

- - 256-color            : Enable 256 color support
 - - alt-font-width       : Calculate the font width using a different method
 - - blink                : Enable blinking text
 - - buffer-on-clear      : Store visible output to history buffer when clearing the
                            screen with ctrl-l. Read
                            https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129302
 - - fading-colors        : Enable colors fading when off focus
 + + focused-urgency      : Enable the urgent flag when a terminal window is focused
 + + font-styles          : Enable support for bold and italic fonts
 - - iso14755             : Enable ISO-14755 support
 + + mousewheel           : Enable scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 and 5
 + + perl                 : Enable perl script support. You can still disable this at
                            runtime with -pe ""
 - - pixbuf               : Enable transparency support using gtk's pixbuf
 - - secondary-wheel      : Support for wheel scrolling on secondary screens (like mutt).
                            Read http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2011q4/00
                            1491.html
 + + startup-notification : Enable application startup event feedback mechanism
 - - unicode3             : Use 21 instead of 16 bits to represent unicode characters
 + + vanilla              : Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour; DO
                            NOT USE THIS ON A GLOBAL SCALE as the severity of the meaning
                            changes drastically
 - - wcwidth              : Enable wide char width support
 + + xft                  : Build with support for XFT font renderer (x11-libs/libXft)

I just switched to using the urxvt daemon and that appears to get rid of the delay. If I can't figure out anything else in the next day then I guess I'll move on.
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