On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 16:49, Andy Isaacson wrote: > The problem: if an X11 app is very slow to refresh (it is swapped out, > or SIGSTOPped, or is over a very slow link) its windows may remain > "garbage" for a long time, which can be confusing when the garbage > happens to be an image of windowmanager decorations (for example). > > The obvious solution, writing the background color into the framebuffer > when a window is un-obscured, is a pessimisation of the normal case > (where the app responds within a few milliseconds). > > A more useful solution would be to schedule an event a few dozen > milliseconds (say, 20 or 100 ms) in the future, which upon arrival would > check that the window has been refreshed and, if not, write it with the > background color, on the assumption that if the app hasn't refreshed > yet, it's not going to anytime soon. > > Ideally this event would only be handled when the X server is otherwise > idle.
All this effort for a band aid? A different basic approach like in XDarwin or XDirectFB makes more sense to me. > Please CC me on any discussion, as I am not subscribed. Gladly, unfortunately the list makes this unnecessarily hard. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
