Gert Brinkmann <g111_at_netcologne.de> writes:
> Dan Espen wrote:
>
> Thank you, for your answer.
>
> > On my system, Fvwm lags behind the mouse (as I think it would be
> > expected to) and I think X is throwing away some of the X traffic
> > which might be what you are seeing.
>
> Hmm, as i understand you, this would result in a slightly
> stottering/uneven moving of the grey screen-box, but it still follows
> the way of the mouse correctly.
>
> > If you think I'm missing something, or this is causing a problem,
> > feel free to provide more details.
>
> It is hard to describe this in english, but i try to describe how i move
> the mouse and how the screen is moving:
>
> I number the desktop pages as follows:
>
> 0 3 6
> 1 4 7
> 2 5 8
>
>
> I e.g. start the mouse movement in page 8 and move it in a normal speed
> on a linear way to page 0. This takes approx. about 1 second, i guess,
> maybe 1,5.
>
> At the beginning the grey screen box (i call it "the screen" from now
> on, because the whole screen moves the same way as the screen-box of the
> pager) lays under the mouse cursor on page 8. It starts moving into the
> correct direction and in the beginning follows the mouse. This may be a
> little stottering and uneven but the screen does keep the correct direction.
>
> Approx. when entering page 4, the screen starts moving in small circles
> around the still linear moving mouse cursor (mostly clockwise). At the
> end of page 4 the screen rotates through the pages 0,3,6,7,8,5,2,1, etc.
> and sometimes stucks in an edge-page. Sometimes the movement of the
> screen is not circular, but it moves to the left and right in a
> direction of 90 degrees to the mouse movement.
>
> Well, i could try to draw a small png image that displays an example of
> the movement and post it here if i am allowed.
No need, using these instructions, I see it now.
> Somewhere in the fvwm-docs i have read that you should not start a
> module using "Module", but add it to the start-function. Can the
> starting of FvwmPager with "Module" be the problem?
Nope.
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Dan Espen E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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Received on Mon Feb 10 2003 - 07:41:28 GMT