Re: opaque window moving very slow in 1.6.1

[Mark Diekhans <markd kermodei com>]

Apologies for blaming out beloved Sawfish; the update slowness seemed
to be due to something bogus that Firefox was doing.

However, it would be nice to know the cause of this error:

 Moving aside my configuration to see if I have something
 in there results in the error:
    Error: Can't start gtkrc-style-program

mark

Mark Diekhans <markd kermodei com> writes:
> 
> After building sawfish 1.6.1, the window movement (opaque
> animation mode) has become sluggish to the point of being 
> unusable. On a 1920x1200 display, moving firefox causes
> the X server to hammer the CPU to 70-90% busy.
> 
> This is on a CentoS 5.2 system without root access, so it
> required building all of the gtk+ dependencies and sawfish
> into a separate directory.
> 
> Previously, I was running a version from the old svn tree
> from around 2009-04-14 and it was very fast.
> 
> Moving aside my configuration to see if I have something
> in there results in the error:
>    Error: Can't start gtkrc-style-program