Re: Slow response to keypresses in xorg-server-1.8.0-1

2010-07-20 Thread Simon Marlow
On 20/07/2010 00:00, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Il 19/07/2010 17.45, Simon Marlow ha scritto: On 19/07/2010 15:51, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: I use the VirtuaWin virtual-desktop tool, and found that often when switching to a desktop with XWin windows on it, the windows would

Re: Slow response to keypresses in xorg-server-1.8.0-1

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Marlow
On 30/06/2010 18:40, Jon TURNEY wrote: This is fallout from a change [1] to the way we process Windows messages to handle large bursts of them overflowing the Xserver's internal event queue. It seems that sometimes /dev/windows doesn't seem ready to select() even when there is still Windows

Re: Slow response to keypresses in xorg-server-1.8.0-1

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Marlow
On 19/07/2010 15:51, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: I use the VirtuaWin virtual-desktop tool, and found that often when switching to a desktop with XWin windows on it, the windows would remain blank until I right-clicked on the XWin icon in the tray, when they would refresh

RE: Ctrl-C and non-cygwin programs

2006-12-04 Thread Simon Marlow
Brian Dessent wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: Then run the program, hit Ctrl-C and see what happens. The behaviour differs depending on the environment: * In a Cygwin shell started from cygwin.bat, with the CYGWIN environment variable empty: correct behaviour, Ctrl-C is caught

Ctrl-C and non-cygwin programs

2006-11-30 Thread Simon Marlow
I'm experiencing strange behaviour with Ctrl-C with non-cygwin programs started from Cygwin bash. Take the following program: #include windows.h #include stdio.h static BOOL WINAPI handler(DWORD dwCtrlType) { switch (dwCtrlType) { case CTRL_C_EVENT: