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

From: Jeff S. Elam <jselam_at_SSD.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 08:11:44 -0800 (PST)

Lars Wirzenius writes:
>
> 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... |
> | |
> -----------------------
>

Please hold what? ;-)

-Jeff E.

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Received on Wed Nov 08 1995 - 10:11:58 GMT

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