Hi all,

I've stopped using Gnome because, every time I open a new window in Pd, Gnome frets for a second or 2 before showing it. I recommend the much faster and lighter "FVWM2" instead.

But I'm planning to try Krzyzstof's edition and see if that helps things at all. I don't remember why that "raise" thing is there in the first place!

cheers Miller

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:54:41PM +0200, j_cj wrote:

|being constantly informed about (ignored) unmapping may get quite |annoying (esp. when in need to frequently switch between virtual |desktops). I think either line 831 in u_main.tk (test17), reading | | bind $name.c <Unmap> {puts stderr map} | |should be commented out, or replaced with something like | | bind $name.c <Unmap> {pdtk_canvas_map %W ""} | |(I have not made any research, though, which way is better, and how |the replacement behaves outside of linux...:)

aaahh. ;)

mapmap

|btw, there is, at least in my setup, another hostile pd.tk line, 834: | | after 1 [concat raise $name] | |but this one hurts (that is: takes ages to complete) only if running |Gnome... wonder if nobody runs Pd under Gnome?

i do run pd under gnome on one machine but i dont experience any "takes ages to complete" ? when is it supposed to happen? maybe now that i know something will take ages to complete ..

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My one and only contribution to this message was changing the subject.

I'd been passsing on the map^3 thread and only by accident found the following gem:

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Frank Barknecht wrote:

Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:

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I've stopped using Gnome because, every time I open a new window in Pd, Gnome frets for a second or 2 before showing it. I recommend the much faster and lighter "FVWM2" instead.

For day-to-day use, I'm still quite happy with blackbox, but just for fun I recently tried sWM from http://www.small-window-manager.de

This is a very super-nano-mini-tiny window-manager, but with enough features to get used to it for longer. It surely would make a great window-manager for performances. I was really surprised, that things felt faster using sWM. It doesn't have a real config file, everything is configured at compile time.

• From the README:

"sWM needs a minimum of 13840 bytes on your harddisk, depending on your selected features and configuration."

Here is my "ls -l": enlightenment: 811536 fvwm2: 325724 blackbox: 163716 sWM: 12388

Now, that's small ;)

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