Re: MC and the desktop

[<nuke bayside net>]

On Tue, 19 May 1998, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> 
> > May I note to the mc developers that while mc is running and there are icons
> > on the root window, any movement over the window causes serious CPU usage
> > (and I can use my cpuload applet to check! ha!) and generally slows things
> > down. 
> 
> This is caused because the icons on the desktop are shaped windows.  I
> should put a configuration option to toggle this behaviour on and
> off. 
> 
> In the meantime, please edit your ~/.mc/ini and set the
> want_transparent_icons variable to 0.

if the icons weren't always on top, then they shouldn't ever need to be
transparent windows, should they? one possibility is to merge the icon 
with the section of the root window needed for the "transparent" part of
the icon, making that the backing of the icon's window, therefore letting
the server handle redraws. desktop icons would then have no effect on
moving windows, and should be completely unnoticable.
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