Re: [Offtopic] X mouse frequency

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Sat, May 01, 1999 at 10:52:35PM +0000 +++
Haukur Hreinsson e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> I've been using win95 and linux/X11 for a long time. I've just started
> using NT and the Macintosh at work. The first thing I noticed about the
> latter two is that the mouse cursor is incredibly smooth compared to the
> former.
> 
> Is there a configuration setting or a patch that brings my X server to
> NT's level in this respect or is that hard to do due to the loose
> coupling between X and the OS?

Three solutions:
- buy a multi-threaded X server
- upgrade your hardware
- rewrite XFree86 to use multi-threading

mawa
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