On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:07:52PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > > > > Correctness (cooperative X client behavior, in this case) is more > > important than performance. And I strongly suspect that outline moves > > can be implemented without grabbing the server but still faster than > > opaque moves. > > I'm pretty sure you're right, there probably could be an outline > move without a grab that would perform somewhere between > the current xor-move and the opaque move.
I wish I knew more about X11 programming, then I would try to implement something myself. Handwaving wildly - could you somehow intercept updates to any of the windows under the outline, and re-xor those pixels against the outline? > If I remember, one of the complaints about the server grab is > that xmms stopped playing. That was the easiest-to-reproduce example I could think of. > You might consider filing a bug report with the xmms folks. Not a bad idea... zw -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
