Re: Is font rendering sharper under Wayland?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 23:31:26 +0000, Richard L wrote:

> I have recently switched to Wayland on my desktop (KDE Plasma) and
> think I have noticed that text is rendered sharper under Wayland.

As I understand it, Wayland basically does as little as possible. While
X11 implements a whole graphics protocol (even including a font server
at one point), Wayland leaves all that up to the client. All it wants is
buffers of pixels for it to composite together to make up the screen
display.
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