RE: GTK+ 2 speed

["Robert Thorpe" <Robert Thorpe antenova com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Davis [mailto:paul linuxaudiosystems com] 
> Sent: 30 July 2005 06:47
> To: Robert Thorpe
> Cc: gtk-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: GTK+ 2 speed
> 
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 19:36 +0100, Robert Thorpe wrote:
> > On Windows there are two similar operations, using Alt-tab to move 
> > between applications and pressing the "desktop" button 
> which minimizes 
> > all windows.  On my machine both of these are much faster, 
> taking much 
> > less than a second.
> 
> this depends a *lot* on the video interface. under X, 
> switching back to a terminal window and then back to X will 
> sometimes cause a complete reset of the video interface h/w. 
> on my nvidia-driven laptop, for example, i see the behavior 
> you describe. on other systems i have with different video 
> interfaces, it does not exist for me.
> 
> windows has no equivalent - you cannot toggle in and out of 
> the frame- buffer based display mode. switching desktops 
> under windows is really not equivalent in a technological 
> sense to switching between a frame- buffer controlled X 
> display and a text-driven console.

You're right, I went back and fiddled with my system a lot.  The redraw
is slow on that particular operation because of some aspect X not
because of GTK+ (or GNOME).