Re: gdk double buffering

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Wouter van Kleunen <w a p vankleunen student utwente nl> writes:

> When you move a window, xfree also seems to do something like:
> 
>   1. Move window
>   2. Clear under laying window. 
>   3. Send message
>   4. return
> 
> Main event loop:
>   5. get message from client
>   6. draw 
> 
> And alot of time will pass between the clearing and the drawing. Now
> that is not very nice :-).

perhaps you want to try XDirectFB (http://directfb.org/xdirectfb.xml)
which uses a back-buffered window-stack so windows can be moved and
unobscured without generating any X11 event at all.


Salut, Sven