On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:21:36AM -0500, Chris Grossmann wrote: > Hey all. > > I use gkrellm, with a medium handful of applications. > Whenever I switch workspaces, I see that the whole gkrellm > interface flashes gray, and is completely redrawn. When my > CPU is heavily loaded (e.g. VMWare reboot), it takes a > little while (seconds?) for the full gkrellm app to come > back: I'm left with just a gray strip. > > It doesn't seem like the whole gkrellm application needs to > be redrawn every time I switch workspaces, especially since > it lives on all of them. > > Is this a gkrellm issue, or a blackbox issue? Does blackbox > not "know" that gkrellm lives on all of the workspaces? >
Hi. I too use gkrellm, and I've found that the best way to run this wonderful little program is to invoke it like 'gkrellm -w'. Executing the program with the '-w' flag will place gkrellm into the slit. On my slow machine the redraw when switching between workspaces is basically instantaneous. When running gkrellm without the '-w' flag, it was very likely that gkrellm would not run correctly, and I'd get this grey window where there should be a gkrellm interface. It was like gkrellm never got to the point it started drawing its stuff on the screen. Running gkrellm in the slit with the '-w' flag has solved this problem for me - no more mysterious grey windows, and normal display and updating of gkrellm. Art Haas -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
