Re: Desktop slowness issue - freeze break request

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mercredi 31 août 2005 à 10:54 -0600, Elijah Newren a écrit :
> On 8/31/05, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com> wrote:
>         > Now, perhaps they're using a different window manager, or
>         perhaps
>         > they're clicking on the desktop enough for this to cause
>         problems, but
>         > the Mandriva bug Frederic linked to in that report suggested
>         that 
>         > mapping any new windows was causing problems, which means
>         that closing
>         > windows is likely to have the same problem, and that's one
>         you
>         > probably can't avoid--it may, in fact, be the problem.
>         
>         Yes, it is really slower to move or close windows. Even doing
>         right
>         click on background takes 3 or 4 seconds to popup.
> 
> Yeah, I don't see how the patch could help with moving or closing of
> windows issue (those cause expose events, not focus ones).  It should
> help with the right click on background as that does cause a focus
> event, but as soon as the right click popup menu goes away the
> background is exposed again and you have the same problem...  so we
> really need the Xorg bug fixed either way.
> 
> However, delaying the right-click menu popup 3-4 seconds isn't very
> cool and making the delay happen after the action is already selected,
> while still annoying, is much nicer for the user.  So the workaround
> seems that it may be justified for that.  Also, although I'm skeptical
> this patch will help this particular bug that much, it does look like
> it'll save on resources in general (even if only a small amount for
> those unaffected by this Xorg Radeon bug), it looks right, and I don't
> see it causing any ill side-effects.  So I'm giving 1 of 2 approvals
> anyway.
> 
> 
>         > So, although the patch looks safe enough to me, I'd really
>         rather see
>         > if it actually helped anyone first. 
>         
>         I've integrated the patch in Mandriva cooker.
>         
>         I'll be able to test it on my home system tonight and report
>         tomorrow.
> 
> Cool, thanks.

Ok, I've done some tests yesterday night on my home system :

Patch fixes the right click menu popup delay (it is almost instantaneous
now) but as expected, background redraws is still slow, which is causing
some performance problem when moving a window quickly over background,
creating or destroying window, but there is nothing we can do for that
at our level.

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva