Re: FVWM: blanking screen for a long time

From: Charles Hines <>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 08:55:26 -0500

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Funk <pf_at_artcom0.north.de> writes:

rn> Note that, if people find that the black intro screen is slowing
rn> things down, then it is a mis-feature, and should just be
rn> removed. Also, if you make the intro screen highly configurable,
rn> then it will take a while to read in the options on how to display
rn> it, and it may become ineffective (or may become even more
rn> irritating, depending on your perspective.)

Peter> I'm a very satisfied user of fvwm 1.24r for long time now and
Peter> I've never noticed any screen blanking caused by fvwm. My
Peter> machine is a stock Pentium-90 PC. So I don't think, it might
Peter> be too fast to notice the dicussed effect.

No, actually the reason you don't notice it is because it's a 2.xx
only feature.

Peter> So I wonder whether the discussed feature has been added to
Peter> fvwm after the 1.24r release.

Yup - see above. It may be removed shortly though, since even though
it may speed things up a little, I think that it is giving the
appearance of starting up slowly.

Perhaps I'll make it conditionally compiled in or controlled by a new
command line option instead.

Chuck

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