On Saturday 30 August 2003 19:41, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > 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.
I'm using KDE and GNOME and I have similar problems on P4s with NVidia cards - its not really about CPU or GPU power, I think its just X being slow. I'll try running a simple WM on my P4 tomorrow and see if it maked a difference - I highly doubt it. > Refresh of windows that were *behind* the moved window is bound to take > time, Why ? I have the CPU power - I just need X to signal the applications on time and accept the redraws fast enough. > I don't call such delayed refresh > "artifacts", maybe you do and maybe that's the difference between the > experiences we describe. I call "artifacts" when I move a window and it leaves trails on the root (or desktop window) which then take time to clear. I don't know about OS-X's or M$ backing store, but apparently they solved this issue because it does not occure or is far less noticeable on those systems. -- Oded ================================================================= 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]
