Re: FVWM: FVWM2 (2.4.0) Slow vs. WMaker

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:15:44 +0100

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:53:44PM -0500, Andy wrote:
> > SnapAttraction -1
> > SnapGrid 1 1
> I suppose I could try this, but I don't suspect that it will work
>
> > What fvwm release do you use? The window motion code in some of
> > the 2.3.x releases was quite slow.
> See subject. 2.4.0.
>
> Actually, turning on BackingStore in X and FVWM2 made things SLOWER.

As I already explained in a previous mail, backing store can make
things faster or slower, mostly depending on the video card.

> WindowMaker was unaffected. Which is wierd, since I'd think they would
> both get similar performance.

Not necessarily. If X does not support backing store, the WM can
not use it, but if it does, the WM can still turn it off
explicitly for each window.

> Are there any compile-time options that I could try that might
> help?

No. By the way, did you check if any application is hogging CPU?

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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