Re: FVWM: Re: blanking screen for a long time

From: Lars Wirzenius <Lars.Wirzenius_at_cs.Helsinki.FI>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 12:05:53 +0200

Robert Nation:
> Note that, if people find that the black intro screen is slowing things
> down,

I don't know if it slows things down (it only takes a couple of seconds
on my machine, at the worst), but the black screen is bad from a user
interface point of view, since it scares people. I think the idea of
hiding out the windows popping up and down and losing and getting borders
is a good one, for the ordinary user if not the debugger. How about instead
of completely blacking out the screen, fvwm puts up a small info window:


        -----------------------
        | |
        | Restarting Fvwm |
        | |
        | Please hold... |
        | |
        -----------------------

Nicely centered and so on, of course.

Naturally, making it possible to configure the window manager and modules
without restarting would be even nicer... :-)

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Received on Wed Nov 08 1995 - 04:05:58 GMT

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