"Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > > > 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... > > > > This is *definitely* an xmms bug. It is perfectly legal for any > > application to grab the X server at any time, although it should > > be released as fast as possible. Running tasks that work in real > > time in the same process/thread as X11 calls is simply stupid. If > > we'd fix that in fvwm there are thousands of other programs that > > can potentially cause similar problems. > > Just for a record: RealPlayer for Linux also has this bug. I've > looked through the Preferences dialog, and it doesn't seem to have a > "play in separate thread" flag, while the program runs as several > processes. Probably just a bad coding. The version is 8.0.3.421, > linux-2.0-libc6-i386-gcc2.95. I don't think that filing a bug report to > Real would help anything.
Hmm, I forget who the original poster here is. Anyway, "tcd" seems to keep playing while wire-frame resizes are being used, even through the xterm stops updating. I don't see why Real wouldn't want to fix their product. -- Dan Espen 444 Hoes Lane Room RRC 1C-214 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Piscataway, NJ 08854 Phone: (732) 699-5570 -- 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]
