Hi, Ian Britten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ya, I've seen this (dreadfully-slow) brute-force approach being used by a > lot of new(er) apps. Personally, I find it dreadful, and I'm not sure > why no one complains about it... :-/ > > (Hint - Fire up a bunch of applications. Grab a small window (xclock), > and drag it around over the other windows (assuming your WM is configured > to do real-time moves). Watch for your CPU to spike. Basic pixmap > copies (which is all an app should be doing for an expose) should be > almost instant, and certainly shouldn't bury the CPU. Lately, I'm finding > I have to minimize more and more apps, as simply moving a window buries > my CPU for 10-40 seconds! Bletch!) you could enable BackingStore in your X-server (if it supported this feature) to avoid this problem. Or you could use a windowing system that doesn't generate expose events for windows that become unobscured. There even are X-server implementations that do this. Salut, Sven _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
