On Fri, Aug 29, 2003, Oded Arbel wrote about "Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)": > I have Voodoo3 card on my Duron (700MHz,256MB) which is a very good 3D card > (for its age) and also has some 2D acceleration. moving any kind of window - > even simple single color boxes results in visible artifact trails. redraw > under normal load (few applications idling) is noticeable (less then a second > of delay) and under heavy load it is painstakingly slow.
This is very strange, because on my 500 MHz pentium, 128 MB memory, opaque window move is very smooth. It already quite smooth on a 100 MHz Pentium, as I remember. I don't know what you're doing "wrong" to cause these problems; I use the ctwm window manager and a 24 bit root window depth, if that matters. Refresh of windows that were *behind* the moved window is bound to take time, unless you have full backing-store, which isn't scalable for the kind of workloads X was meant to handle and that many of us indeed put it through (many windows being displayed, a lot of them large and containing text, and coming from various machines). I don't call such delayed refresh "artifacts", maybe you do and maybe that's the difference between the experiences we describe. Does OS-X have backing-store on all windows just to allow quicker refresh? -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Aug 30 2003, 3 Elul 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |(On the back of a VW Beetle) Don't honk, http://nadav.harel.org.il |I'm peddling as fast as I can. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
