On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:26:07PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > On 11 Oct 2002 12:17:51 +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:23:57AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > > > > > > Transparent (and tinted) menus are very slow, I don't use this on the > > > daily basis (not that I use any predictable theme on a daily basis). > > > Hopefully transparent menus could be somehow speeded up, or maybe it is > > > just my video card and my 350Mhz processor. > > > > To get "fast" Transparent menu you should use: > > > > Colorset 5 RootTransparent buffer, Tint black 30 > > ^^^^^^ > > and use fvwm-root or Esetroot to set the root bg. This can take a lot > > of memory: each "buffered" RootTransparent colorset will load a tinted > > version of the root pixmap. If the transparency is not buffered the > > tinted menu bg is dynamically created/destroyed, so it is "slow". > > With Tinted ParentRelative Transparency we should make in addition > > a screenshot of the concerned part of the root window, so this is > > "very slow". > > It is faster, thanks. The background now appears almost immediatelly after > some hardly noticable blink (it may be more noticable on other hardware). >
I cannot see such a blinking (I get some blinking with fine gradient). Do you see the blinking when you popup the menu for the second time (with a given cset definition)? > Still, it is not fast, you may see how item by item is drawn on the > background. This may be because of tinted menu icons with alpha channel or > xft fonts. I think it is not because of tinted menu icons or xft fonts, > but because of png icons. I can reproduce this only with some xft fonts and some shadow. Xft is slow I do not think we can do something (maybe recent version of Xft2 is faster). In fact I can "reproduce" this (without xft but with IconTint and IconAlpha) when I run my Xserver with --depth 24 (almost not visible even with very big menu, but I can see something). However, in depth 24 I've _no_ XAA. Can you run your server with --depth 16? > I don't know what can be done here at least for > non-static background, becuase the icons should be applied to the > background every time a menu is poped up... But maybe there is a way. > Yes, I think this the way: do you want to have in memory all the menus in some pixmaps? Note also that it is not possible (in general) to draw in a Pixmap with a ParentRelative "bg". Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
