Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-29 Thread Holger Vogt
Hi all, Another reply to Harold's question: So, are the fast apps non-OpenGL and the slow apps OpenGL? Thae layout editor MAGIC, compiled with Cygwin (http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/magic/windows/windows.html) and using OpenGL is totally slow (unusable) in -multiwindow mode, but o.k.

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-28 Thread g . macaulay
On 27 Sep 2003 at 18:19, Milos Komarcevic wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 23:29, Alexander Gottwald wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does not show such a marked difference. One point of difference is that the Matlab GUI is written entirely in Java, while the other program uses GTK.

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-27 Thread Milos Komarcevic
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 23:29, Alexander Gottwald wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does not show such a marked difference. One point of difference is that the Matlab GUI is written entirely in Java, while the other program uses GTK. With Swing (JFC)? Swing is the most stupid GUI I've ever

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does not show such a marked difference. One point of difference is that the Matlab GUI is written entirely in Java, while the other program uses GTK. With Swing (JFC)? Swing is the most stupid GUI I've ever seen. It draws all components to a local buffer and transfers

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-25 Thread g . macaulay
Harold Mark, To contribute to the discussion: I see the same problem when running Matlab. In my case Matlab is run on a Compaq/HP Tru64 computer with the GUI displayed on my Windows PC running cygwin/xfree in multiwindow mode. I also have a commercial X server (xwin32) available on my PC.

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Gavin, I forgot to mention something that is becoming apparent now: Matlab may be using OpenGL, which is implemented in software in Cygwin/XFree86. Thus, OpenGL is extremely slow in Cygwin/XFree86. Some of the commercial X Servers for Windows have an accelerated implementation of OpenGL

Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Jones
I have tried using XFree86 (linux and cygwin) for Cygwin's XFree86 and Linux's XFree86 and have found it to be extremely slow at refreshing the screen making it nearly impossible to use MATLAB's editor reasonably. However, using a MS Windows emulator like Xoftware or Hummingbird's Exceed

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Jones
At 10:17 PM 9/24/2003, Mark Jones wrote: I have tried using XFree86 (linux and cygwin) for Cygwin's XFree86 and Linux's XFree86 and have found it to be extremely slow at refreshing the screen making it nearly impossible to use MATLAB's editor reasonably. However, using a MS Windows emulator

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Mark, Using the default -multiwindow mode (with the integrated window manager) is slower than all of the other modes. You can run XWin from startxwin.bat instead with: XWin -rootless Then you need to start a window manager like 'twm': run twm Cygwin/XFree86 works by drawing to an offscreen

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Mark, Mark Jones wrote: At 10:17 PM 9/24/2003, Mark Jones wrote: I have tried using XFree86 (linux and cygwin) for Cygwin's XFree86 and Linux's XFree86 and have found it to be extremely slow at refreshing the screen making it nearly impossible to use MATLAB's editor reasonably. However,