On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:55:04PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:17:21AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > ... > > > If that hypothesis is correct, then the traffic is instructions to copy > > one existing pixmap to an area of another existing pixmap and there's > > nothing we can do about it. > > Plausible actually: 450 B/s at 400 ms corresponds to 200 B/blink or > under 70 bytes per bitblit operation, where coordinates and height/width > info must be transferred to the server. > > Our only hope would be a 'blink' attribute for pixels at the server, but > AFAIK X doesn't do that... > > - Martin
Guess what: open a remote xterm over ssh with the command 'xterm -bc', and you get a blinking cursor. And the same kind of ADSL traffic as with LyX... that settles it, doesn't it: the authors of xterm know X better than anyone. - Martin
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