Squeak windows redraw in Linux...

Elod Kironsky kironsky at grisoft.cz
Wed Mar 7 20:49:00 UTC 2007


bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Elod Kironsky writes:
>  > I suspect a little misunderstanding here. I'm using Squeak VM 3.9-8 and 
>  > the final 3.9 image. Under Windows it just works fine, under Linux 
>  > however, the redraw performance of morphic windows is
>  > very slow. You can imagine how slow it is, if you install Windows 
>  > (without any extra drivers), set a higher resolution and try to move any 
>  > window of any application. You will get the same symptom.
>
> Does it slowly repaint the entire Squeak window line by line? I've
> seen this on Ubuntu Edgy but not Dapper or Gentoo. I suspect it's
> caused by some X/Squeak version incompatability issue given I've used
> the same VM and image on both Edgy and Gentoo. Edgy is painfully slow
> while Gentoo runs at the normal speed.
>
> Bryce
>
>   
No, it is not that bad, but very slow.

Elod



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