> 2. What is presented on the screen should always be consistent (i.e. > no flickering).
This is something I've seem many many times, mostly from people coming from other OS. People claim that opaque move and resize is generally faster with less flickering on other systems. I feel concerned about this (probably because I'm working on a window manager) so I decided to take a look at how it works (sorry, I mean how it "looks") on other systems. I've tried with MS Windows XP, BeOS and QNX (the two last being low latency kernels). I must say that, on the same hardware, I don't really see any difference with X. The problem people report on X show in other systems too. And, by increasing the priority of X and using a fast window manager, I really think X is similar to other windowing systems in this area. All this is mostly a matter of feeling, it's hard to measure the delay for a window refresh anyway. And it depends on the application too (OpenOffice shows a huge delay, for example, and it does so on all systems I guess) Cheers, -- Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.xfce.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources. XFce is all free software, released under GNU General Public License. Available from http://www.xfce.org _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
