Squeak windows redraw in Linux...

Elod Kironsky kironsky at grisoft.cz
Wed Mar 7 22:53:21 UTC 2007


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
> On Mar 7, 2007, at 22:55 , Elod Kironsky wrote:
>
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> On Mar 7, 2007, at 10:57 , Elod Kironsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> I guess this topic was already discussed, but I have a very bad 
>>>> redraw rate of windows in morphic. I
>>>> use Fedora Core 6 with 3.9-8 VM and have direct rendering enabled 
>>>> (I don't know if it relevant). Now
>>>> when I run Squeak, the windows are redrawn very slowly. If you ever 
>>>> tried to use Windows without
>>>> the proper graphic drivers (e.g. Windows built-in VESA compliant 
>>>> driver) with a higher resolution, you
>>>> know what I am talking about. Can this anyhow be fixed?
>>>
>>> Do you mean it's slower than Windows rendering, or generally slow?
>>>
>>> Make sure the squeak bit depth matches the X11 bit depth. And use xshm.
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> If I try to run squeak -xshm <image>, I get a message that -xshm is 
>> an unknown option. It is listed though among
>> available option when I run squeak -?.
>
> You should read the explanation more carefully ;-)
>
> "-xshm" is an option provided by the X11 display module, it does not 
> make sense for the VM itself. So you have to precede it by 
> -vm-display-X11 .
>
>> How can I set squeak bit depth?
>
> World menu - appearance.
>
> - Bert -
>
>
OK, I just run squeak -vm-display-X11 -xshm <image> and the result was 
even worse then before :-(. It is incredibly slow. Also tried setting 
the bit depth to every possible value, but that does not help.

Elod



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