I have an app, Snd, the venerable sound editor, which can be compiled either with the openmotif or the gtk libraries. I prefer the gtk libs but it displays a very annoying tendency to redraw the app display everytime you move another window across it or do *anything* with the screen. The openmotif compile, OTOH, is lightning fast with none of these tendencies.
My question: would this be a factor of how Snd itself is coded (the source readme does admit that the gtk port needs a lot of work), or is it a facet of the Metacity WM on my RH8 box?
jb
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 05:32, Jack Bowling wrote:
I have an app, Snd, the venerable sound editor, which can be compiled either with the openmotif or the gtk libraries. I prefer the gtk libs but it displays a very annoying tendency to redraw the app display everytime you move another window across it or do *anything* with the screen. The openmotif compile, OTOH, is lightning fast with none of these tendencies.
My question: would this be a factor of how Snd itself is coded (the source readme does admit that the gtk port needs a lot of work), or is it a facet of the Metacity WM on my RH8 box?
It sounds like the app needs some work. Window managers don't sent redraw events, so they shouldn't affect this.
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On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 05:32, Jack Bowling wrote:
I have an app, Snd, the venerable sound editor, which can be compiled either with the openmotif or the gtk libraries. I prefer the gtk libs but it displays a very annoying tendency to redraw the app display everytime you move another window across it or do *anything* with the screen. The openmotif compile, OTOH, is lightning fast with none of these tendencies.
My question: would this be a factor of how Snd itself is coded (the source readme does admit that the gtk port needs a lot of work), or is it a facet of the Metacity WM on my RH8 box?
It sounds like the app needs some work. Window managers don't sent redraw events, so they shouldn't affect this.
OK, thanks, Alex. That was the logical conclusion but I just wanted to check to see if there was anything I could do on my end.
-- Jack Bowling Prince George, BC mailto:jbinpg@shaw.ca
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 23:32, Jack Bowling wrote:
I have an app, Snd, the venerable sound editor, which can be compiled either with the openmotif or the gtk libraries. I prefer the gtk libs but it displays a very annoying tendency to redraw the app display everytime you move another window across it or do *anything* with the screen. The openmotif compile, OTOH, is lightning fast with none of these tendencies.
My question: would this be a factor of how Snd itself is coded (the source readme does admit that the gtk port needs a lot of work), or is it a facet of the Metacity WM on my RH8 box?
This is a bug in the way that the app is coded.
Regards, Owen
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