I've been 'tinkering around' with Cygwin for a few months now. Not doing anything serious with it - just finding out about it. And in the main, I like it. The only disappointment (sorry guys) is 'X11' (or maybe the problems are with gtk-x11).
Either way, I've been hugely disappointed at how 'clunky' a GUI app feels, on screen. Moving windows around the screen isn't so bad - but resizing them looks horrendous. Even simple windows flicker very badly. Another problem is tnat the contents don't actually resize until I let go of the window. So, if I'm dragging the bottom-right corner of a window to make it bigger, I just get a big white flickery space at the bottom and on the RHS - until I let go of my mouse button at which point, all the objects reposition themselves. Twin monitors are a bit of a pain too, to be honest. A few days ago I realised that GTK+ offers various backends, including a win32 one. So over the past few days I've been taking a look at it - to see if I could ditch 'X' and gtk-x11 abd build my Cygwin apps using gtk-win32. It's not without its problems but I've been truly astonished at how much smoother the windows behave, on screen. Okay - we'd expect a native build to be slicker, but this is sooooo smooth compared to the clunky effects that I see with Cygwin-X and gtk-x11. Before I decide to dive off at a tangent, is there anything I could do to 'tweak' the performance of Cygwin's 'X' and/or gtl-x11? For example, is it possible that X11 isn't taking advantage of hardware accelleration? And if so, is this something I could 'turn on' somehow? Thanks, John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
