Re: FVWM: Pager improvement suggestion

From: Cameron Simpson <cs_at_zip.com.au>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 15:15:18 +1000

On 01:58 17 Aug 2002, Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de> wrote:
| On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:02:45PM +0000, Saku Sammakko wrote:
| > A humble suggestion for pager:
| > [... app thumbnails in pager ...]
| I'm afrai, but that feature cannot be written in X in a fashion
| that would be actually usable. When a window is not currently
| visible, its contents may not be anywhere in memory, so the pager
| cannot find out what to draw in the mini window. And even if the
| window is on screen, this would need ridiculous amounts of memory
| and take so long to update that nobody would use it. I'm sorry to
| say this, but X simply doesn't provide an interface for background
| drawing.

I think E (or Evolution? I forget) has such a pager.
You could probably snapshot things on desktop switches, while they're
visible. It would mean the thumbnails weren't "live", but it would work
pretty well. It would be rather expensive - E has never been put off by such
things :-) Needless to say I prefer FVWM.
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