slow 256 color XWin on XP

Harold Hunt huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Sep 18 20:17:00 GMT 2002


Norbert,

I don't know what to tell you.  I have never had this problem nor have I had
a user report this same problem.

Anything in /tmp/XWin.log?

Harold


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Norbert Schmidt
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:09 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: slow 256 color XWin on XP
>
>
>
> Only if I start XWin on winXP pro with:
>
>  XWin -fullscreen -depth 8
>
> it starts extrem slow. (up to XWin-Test65.exe)
>
> If I start a remote windowmanager (ssh) then the XWin-server switches 4
> times (so slow!) and I wait 5 minutes (1.4GHz/P4). After that speed is
> fine, but windows task switching from and to XWin.
>
> Has anyone same thing on XP, or can test it for me?
>
> (no problems on w98)
>
> thanks,
> Norbert
>
>
>



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