RE: Amusing bug found in GMC

[Steve Homer <shomer fmco com>]

Ok, Anyone wanna start an X replacement?

*smiles*

seriously though, I've heard of a lot of growing discontent from various
places, does anyone think that they may be interested in taking on a project
and unifying some of this discontent?

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hult [mailto:rhult@hem2.passagen.se]
Sent: 26 April 1999 07:17
To: Peter Petrakis; gnome-list
Cc: "recipient.list.not.shown"
Subject: RE: Amusing bug found in GMC


> This is pretty cool. Make a drag window on the desktop and you'll see
> that any window that wants to refresh itself can't do it. It's particuly
> amusing when I'm downloading something in netscape. I can be a 30 sec
> remaining on a download then I'll create a drag window on the desktop
> and it'll freeze along with the rest of the desktop. The NS animation
> will stop and so will the countdown. when I release the mouse it
> refreshes the screen to where it should be at the point in time.
> Compiling stuff is cool too. It's like hold screen but for the whole
> desktop :). This from the Gnome/E 1.0.8 rpm release.

I guess you mean the rubberband selection thingy. It's not a bug, it's a
feature ;)

As far as I know: GMC has to grab the x-server to be able to do that, which
means that the screen freezes.

Richard


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