On 15 Jan 2003 10:33:40 +0100, Klaus Umbach wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:45:37PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:33:26PM +0100, RvB wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:15:17AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > >
> > > > I guess you have to ask the Eterm developers about this.
> > >
> > > i think it is not actually an eterm problem, it also happens with rxvt
> > > and many similar programmes. it also happens to transparent window
> > > titlebars of fvwm. they are refreshed the whole time while moving, which
> > > takes a lot of cpu time. it would be a lot better if there was an option
> > > for the window to be refreshed after the move or resize is actually finished.
> > > :)
> >
> > Really, fvwm is just honouring standards. Any decent
> > implementation of transparency (in an application) suppresses most
> > of these redraws.
> >
> > > in other windowmanagers, (enlightenment, afterstep, wmaker, ...)
> > > "transparency" acts like this, and it is a lot resource-friendlier ...
> > > and as i said it is not an Eterm-specific problem :)
> >
> > Right, then it's a problem in E, afterstep, wmaker, ... too. The
> > standard (ICCCM2) is very clear about the right behaviour. If
> > other WMs are ignoring this standard, it's their problem, not
> > fvwm's.
> >
> > But to be honest I suspect that you are running very old versions
> > of Eterm, rxvt and said window managers. As far as I know, the
> > latest versions of the terminal programs have already been fixed.
>
> I have the latest stable version of Eterm: 0.92
> Wouldn't it be nice to have an Option to change this behaviour?
> By the Way: what other windowmanager use the ICCCM2-standard?
Just tried sawfish-1.0 + "fvwm-root -r bg_image" + Eterm-0.9.1.
It behaves exactly like with fvwm, i.e. Eterm blinks all the way.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 03:58:08 GMT