Re: opaque window moving very slow in 1.6.1

[Mark Diekhans <markd kermodei com>]

Sigh, sorry to be talking to myself here, but after firefox gets
more complex windows open, the move starts to slow down.  This never
happened with the previous sawfish...

thanks!

Mark Diekhans <markd kermodei com> writes:
> 
> 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