Re: FVWM: Everything stops when moving around windows

From: <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:35:51 +0100

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:26:25PM +0100, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
>
> > Something in the general direction of a non-XOR frame as was being
> > discussed would be nice, but perhaps I can live with OpaqueResize--the
> > only app that seems to redraw excessively is xterm, and its redraws are
> > only annoying, not slow.
> >
> I think the reason for this is because xterm (and other VTs) measure their
> geometry in charcells instead of pixels, so the resize gets "choppy".
> Am I correct?

No. The problem is that many applications redraw themselves way
too often and delete their contents when doing it. And the
application would have to know at which side it is grabbed to set
the right bit_gravity.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Tue Dec 03 2002 - 16:37:27 GMT

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