Re: FVWM: outline move/resize

From: Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha_at_nwgsm.ru>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 03:23:45 +0300

>>>>> On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 19:09:53 -0500
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com> wrote:
Dan>
Dan> Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha_at_nwgsm.ru> writes:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Why do fvwm calls XGrabServer in the beginning of outline windows
>> moves and resizes and UnGrab in the end? is this a performance
>> question?
Dan>
Dan> The outlines are xored onto the screen and erased with another
Dan> xor. If the server wasn't grabbed, other applications could
Dan> draw on the xor in between and the erase wouldn't work.

Ahh.. I have a problem. Being a debian's fvwm maintainer I got a bug
report on it. User complains that outline processes makes some
X-applications stop and even stops xmms playing for him. And so he
think this is a bug.

BTW, outlines could be erased by updating places they've been, or
could not?

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Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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Received on Tue Jan 08 2002 - 18:25:47 GMT

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