Programs using X freeze while switching windows

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 09/28/04 22:34, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:44, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > xfwm4 requires the server grab during the alt+tab procedure, so it's not
> > a flaw in xfwm4.
> 
> Yeap, it's not a "pathetic flaw", it's a design decision... (note that
> could be a pathetic decision as well, but that's another story)
> 
> Anyway, I can remove the grab, the code is designed to work w/out
> grabbing the server, but that means that xfwm4 won't draw the window
> frames shadow during the alt+tab cycling like it does now.
> 
> Yes, I could make it "optional", with yet another "hidden" option, but
> quite frankly I think we are adding far too much options, and we loose
> focus on the main goals.
> 
> So what do you guys think, remove or keep the grab? I think we should
> remove it, it's not the first time we get such a feedback from the users
> (we even got a bug report  for that some times ago).

honestly, i love how xfwm4 draws the frame border while alt-tabbing, esp
since i usually have a large number of terminals open, and location on the
screen is the only way i can tell them apart.

i don't want to adopt a "the hell with the users" attitude, but the real
problem is in the apps that can't handle blocking on a grab.  working around
broken apps at the expense of what i think is a useful feature is a bad
idea in my book.

so, unless you can remove the grab and somehow keep the outline-drawing
feature, my vote is firmly in favor of leaving it as-is.

	-brian


> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> -- 
>  - Olivier Fourdan - fourdan at xfce.org - http://www.xfce.org - 
> 
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