Keith Packard’s 2000 talk/paper explaining the need for #XRENDER. Kind of shocking to realize that that was only 13 years into the history of X11, and it’s been 18 years since then.
on 02018-10-23Keith Packard’s 2001 talk/paper on #XRENDER’s design and implementation
on 02018-10-23The "XRENDER" #X11 extension, which is how X does text since like 2000 or so
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