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 ^_^ ^_^
--
Dominik Vogt, Agilent Technologies, Dept. BVS
Herrenberger Str.130, 71034 Boeblingen, Germany
phone: 07031/464-4596, fax: 07031/464-3883, dominik_vogt_at_agilent.com
--
Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>.
To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a
message to majordomo_at_fvwm.org.
To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner_at_fvwm.org.
Received on Mon Nov 06 2000 - 07:05:51 GMT