Programs using X freeze while switching windows

[Shahar Weiss]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:44, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>xfwm4 requires the server grab during the alt+tab procedure, so it's not
>>a flaw in xfwm4.
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>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)
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>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.
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>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.
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>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).
>
>Cheers,
>Olivier.
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Actually I'm using XMMS myself, and I just tried using alt+tab straight 
for about 40 seconds and the music kept playing just fine. It only got 
stuck when the song finished playing.
Maybe there's a different issue here?

Shahar.