Re: FVWM: Resizing windows stops everything else.

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_math.uh.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:40:10 +0100

On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 12:08:12PM -0500, Andy wrote:
> > The rubber bands are "XOR"'d onto the background. The XOR operation is
> > reversible, that is, if you do it twice, the background comes back to
> > its original color. Fvwm has to grab the XServer during this operation
> > because anyone else drawing where the XORs have been done will mess up
> > the second XOR.
> > There might be other ways of putting the rubber bands on the screen,
> > but they would be a lot slower, so I think its a feature.
> Why can't I get it to show the window as it's resized rather than the
> rubber bands? I'd actually prefer that behavior over taking over the
> machine for such a simple operation (or so it seems).

You can with the ResizeOpaque style as Dan already mentioned.
You will need a current beta version, though. But you may not
like the result for your applications. Many programs are unable
to handle opaque resizing properly and flicker a lot or keep
redrawing for many sencond after you finished the operation.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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Received on Mon Nov 06 2000 - 07:05:51 GMT

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