Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> writes: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:03:03AM +1100, scott wrote: > > Hi Dominik, > > > > > ... and possibly people connected to the X server by a phone line. > > > What I'm worried about is the latency by grabbing or ungrabbing > > > bindings over a slow connection. > > > > I assume you're talking about grabbing the X server whenever a new > > window is created to GrabWindowKey() for each applicable binding? > > No, I mean the underlying calls to XGrabKey()/XUngrabKey() in > libs/bindings.c. These calls require contacting the X server. If > you have lots of bindings that change and/or an application with a > frequently changing title, this can be a problem. I vaguely > remember an old bug in that area that slowed down startup > dramatically because of unnecessary grabs.
I believe that was around the time IgnoreModifiers was invented. I was running Fvwm remotely over dialup with lots of key bindings in my .fvwm2rc. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
