minimize redraw events after resizing/moving windows in multiwindow mode
Jon TURNEY
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Wed Sep 7 13:16:00 GMT 2011
On 20/08/2011 23:11, Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> in multiwindow mode the modal moving/resizing of windows causes a lot of
> redraw events send to the X clients after the userse releases the mouse
> button. During the moving/resizing client windows are not redrawn as long as
> the mouse button is pressed. But all redraw/resizing events are queued and
> executed step after step after moving/resizing ends.
>
> Some clients collect and combine multiple redraw or resizing events, other
> clients (e.g. xterm) simply execute each redraw or sizing event.
>
> The enclosed patch minimizes the events for clients to only one event after
> the user releases the mouse button to end the moving/resizing. This improves
> the user experience and reduces strange screen flickerings especially on slow
> platforms.
Thanks for the patch.
I've applied it to my git tree [1], so it will appear in the next cygwin X
server release (probably 1.11.0-1)
[1]
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jturney/xserver/commit/?h=cygwin-release-1.11&id=784ef7472904cbac6ea49d8cf0e489820372a90d
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