On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Eric Hattemer wrote: >What I'd say sucks more than applications, more than vague issues with >low level protocol stuff and how XYZ is missing, is that X11 seems >slow. Really slow.
*Groan* I've seen these complaint threads a thousand times. And those threads usually mention just as many causes for the slowness. My recommendation is to do a search on google to see if someone else has the same problem. In many cases (not all cases), the cause isn't the X server, or the X protocol, or even the video card. And before Jim responds with a 50 page lecture of X performance; yes I am aware of cases where some operations in the X server are slow, and the X protocol may be part of the problem. As for 'accelerated' drivers; I recommend taking those comments with a large grain of salt. At work, a vendor says the video card and the driver they provided were 'accelerated'. But we found otherwise during regular use... As for the X network performance, that too may not be an X server or protocol issue. It depends. There are applications and window managers that aren't efficient in handling of menus and such. But it's well known that doing a lot of bitmap and font operations over the network isn't going to be fast. --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]