[Lesstif] "mwm" on Cygwin : heavy load

[Harold L Hunt II]

Christian,

See, the problem here is that you are not reading what I am telling you 
about the -emulatepseudo parameter.

Let me explain.  Imagine that you would really like to have 
Cygwin/XFree86 running in 16 bit color, but that you would like to still 
be able to run applications that require a PseudoColor visual.  Well, 
the -emulatepseudo option creates a fake PseudoColor visual in addition 
to the standard TrueColor visual when running in TrueColor modes. 
 Therefore, -emulatepseudo does nothing beneficial when you are already 
running in 8 bit color mode, as there is already a PseudoColor visual 
when you run in 8 bit color mode (both in windowed and in fullscreen 
modes).  Thus, LEAVE OFF THE FREAKING -emulatepseudo PARAMETER!!! 
 There, thanks for reading it this time.

Now, as to the additional information you supplied, you did not specify 
if you left off the -emulatepseudo parameter when you ran with -depth 16 
and -fullscreen.  If you did not leave off the -emulatepseudo parameter, 
then I am not surprised that your problem did not go away, as 
PseudoColor emulation in TrueColor modes is a hack that is nowhere near 
completion, so it could very well be causing your problems.

On the other hand, Cygwin has gone through many revisions in the past 
few days (including new versions of the Cygwin DLL) and some of these 
revisions have been causing great problems for many users.   I suggest 
that you run Cygwin's setup.exe again and let it download and install 
any updated packages.

Could someone from Lesstif give him some notes on possibly renaming any 
configuration files for Lesstif so that we can rule out any custom 
configuration as the cause of this problem?

Thanks,

Harold

Christian SARDIN wrote:

>Thanks for answering.
>
>But, no change if -depth 16 in TrueColor. (I do need pseudo color because I 
>want to display an application which plays with colormap 
>-XtConvertAndStore-)
>
>With the task manager I changed priority from normal to a lower level, it 
>doesnt change the 100% rated (By the way I run XP ) , but moves seems more 
>fluid... I can't try my application to see its speed (needing pseudo color 
>! )
>And it is difficult to guess what is responsible for slowlyness : PC, 
>Cygwin, or Xfree - mwm / memory-swap ????
>
>May be the information given by XP is wrong !
>I expect a driver soon to try installing Linux (Red Hat 7.3 probably) and 
>compare !
>
>Christian
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De:	Harold L Hunt II [SMTP:huntharo@msu.edu]
>Date:	jeudi 14 novembre 2002 16:00
>A:	csardin@sopragroup.com
>Cc:	lesstif@lesstif.org
>Objet:	Re: [Lesstif] "mwm" on Cygwin : heavy load
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>Christian,
>
>Do NOT use the -emulatepseudo option for XWin.exe.  That is a
>development-only feature and it more than likely does not do what you
>think it does.
>
>That could be the root of your problem.
>
>I actually use MWM was my primary window manager for Cygwin/XFree86 and
>I have never had a problem with it taking 100% of the CPU.  Try passing
>``-depth 16'' and see if it works better then, as this could be isolated
>to 8-bit color.
>
>Harold
>
>Christian SARDIN wrote:
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>>Hello
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>>I discovered less tif recently, and am surprisedthat CYGWIN does not 
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>appear
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>>in the list of platforms supported. Anyway I had it with Cygwin package.
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>>My problem is that it uses 100% CPU ! Even if I reduce the virtual desktop
>>at ONE screen area. Do you know that problem ? Have you a solution ?
>>
>>Thanks a lot
>>
>>Christian
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>>I start with
>>startx -- -emulatepseudo -fullscreen -depth 8
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>>in app-defaults, The onlu uncommented lines are finally :
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>>!! $Id: Mwm.ad,v 1.2 2001/10/27 18:32:58 amai Exp $
>>!!
>>!! app defaults for mwm
>>*multiScreen:		False
>>*maximumMaximumSize:	"screen_width x screen_height"
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>>My .xinitrc includes :
>>setxkbmap -layout fr
>>xset fp= tcp/192.168.191.109:7000
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>># start some nice programs
>>
>>xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
>>xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
>>xhost +
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>>mwm
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>>And the PC is a VT6200 HP, laptop notebook P4 M 1.7 GHz, 256 Mo, ATI 
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>radeon
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>>Mobility M6 with 32 Mo.
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