Re: How to detect display speed in custom widget?

[Daniel Yek <dyek real com>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 20:47 -0700, Daniel Yek wrote:
>   
> > I'm wondering if anybody is experienced in writing smart widget that 
> > would react differently depending on whether the current display is 
> > local/fast for graphics animation or remote/slow where all animation 
> > should be kept to the minimum?
> >
> > What techniques are suitable for drawing speed detection?
> >     
> The cheapest hack is probably to see if the X server supports the MITSHM
> extension.  If it doesn't, odds are you are on a remote display.
>   

Hi Federico,

Thanks for the tips! That sounds useful!

> [This assumption breaks under VNC, but I guess that's pretty hard to
> detect anyway.]
>   

I think VNC is not a problem, because it doesn't send every frame over 
the network, so it won't "crawl."

Thanks!

--
Daniel Yek.



>   Federico