Στις 10/2/21 12:34 μ.μ., ο/η Hiltjo Posthuma έγραψε:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:40:39AM +0200, Κράκ Άουτ wrote:
I started using dwm a couple of months ago, switching from xfce4. Since
my pc is a bit constrained on resources I really appreciate the low
memory footprint of dwm. But I've noticed that it's slower than
xfce/xfwm when resizing/moving floating windows. Also on converting
tiled to floating and vice-versa (equivalent to unmaximize/maximize on
xfwm).
Regarding driver and general X setup everything is fine, 3D graphics, hw
assisted video playback work ok. I've pinned down the speed difference
to xfwm's option to hide contents of windows when moving and resizing,
which I've enabled on xfwm. Only the frame of the window is drawn, until
the final position when the hole window draws back again.
I've searched for dwm patches with equivalent functionality, haven't
found anything. Do you have any idea how to achieve hiding content of
windows when moving and resizing on dwm?
I've also met this,
https://lists.suckless.org/dwm/0809/6775.html
I quote, "Some people mentioned that mouseresize is really slow in dwm".
Apparently others have noticed this lag also. In this mail there is a
patch/hack, but it's some years old, I tried to patch my dwm setup with
it, didn't make it.
I suppose for a light, hackable wm like dwm, it would be nice to have an
option or a patch to hide window content when moving/resizing windows.
It makes a difference on older hardware.
Hi,
Can you describe more precisely what is felt as "slow" to you? Some numbers
would be nice.
What are the exact specifications of your machine, related to video drivers,
memory etc?
This commit was added after 2008 as a fix/workaround. It limits updates to
~60fps:
https://git.suckless.org/dwm/commit/3d1090ba896319368c4771b88d325fcee368a608.html
At the time I think the lag was introduced after a X11 change related to the
graphics stack on my machine, but I'm not entirely sure.
I think it would be nice to have this patch anyway, either as a wiki-patch or
maybe even upstreamed if it is simple enough.
Hi Hiltjo,
It's not slow in the sense that it's not usable, but obviously not as
fast as not drawing contents at all. Unfortunately I have no way to
benchmark and provide numbers; it doesn't take a sec or more to move a
floating window, it's just a bit sluggish.
To clarify, the same sluggishness applies for xfwm, if I enable it to
show the contents of windows while moving/resizing. I do not consider
dwm to fall short or have a bug, it's just that I cannot disable showing
windows contents on move/resize, as in other window managers.
My pc is an 11 year old Intel i3 cpu, Ati Radeon HD 2000.
So, looking at your code, can I limit updates to 1/sec instead of
60/sec? Changing this line,
`if ((ev.xmotion.time - lasttime) <= (1000 / 60))`
to
`if ((ev.xmotion.time - lasttime) <= (1000 / 1))`
would be enough?
Can I also achieve 0/sec somehow? I suggested 1/sec because division by
zero is not possible.
Forgive me if the proposal it totally wrong, I'm not into C at all.
