On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 11:13 AM, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Patrick Hurh wrote: > >> From: Patrick Hurh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fnal? Ahh, Fermilab! Cool! :) > >> ps A very general question. The response of my computer for graphical >> things (moving windows etc...) seems very slow when using XDarwin. Is >> this just the overhead of running sawfish and gnome? Or a limitation of >> XFree86 or what? Obviously the mac osX seems to have no problem >> blitting >> to the screen very fast. > > Interesting. Personally it feels the opposite to me -- X11 feels > snappier > than Aqua to me. If you're exclusively using X-Windows and you want it > to > run a bit faster, you may want to login to your system as ">console". > This > shuts down the normal Aqua windowserver, and drops you into an oldschool > BSD style console login prompt. Once you've logged in this way, you can > type "startx" [plus whatever params] to fire up a fullscreen X11 session > that, because it isn't running along side Aqua, might be a bit faster. OK I'll try that some time and see if I notice a speed-up. <snip> Going back towards your points, yeah there is a bit of overhead in running > Gnome along with whatever window manager, but it seems like -- I haven't > measured this or anything -- there's almost no way the overhead of doing > that can be as high as all the advanced graphical trickery that is going > on with Quartz. X11 is very crude by comparison, but for that exact > reason > it seems like it ought to be a lot snappier in many contexts. Well, what I'm talking about is very evident on my machine (G3 powerbook). Quartz (aqua) windows move smoothly when I grab them and drag them around the screen (fast refresh rate). However using XDarwin with Gnome and sawfish, Xwindows blink, stutter and shear (slow refresh rate) when I grab them and drag them around the screen. The same with panels hiding and drawers sliding. Definitely not 'snappy'. I just get the feeling that I'm using an emulator.... --patrick. _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
