Re: Twitching server

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 08:56:42AM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:18:44AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I don't know if anybody else has the same problem. I'm using XWin
> > (latest Test44) on a W2K box with a TNT2/64 in 1280x1024x32 mode.
> > I'm starting XWin by a shortcut with broadcast option so that I'm
> > using it as X-Terminal. I don't use the fullscreen option. Exactly:
> > 
> > 	XWin :0 -nowinkill -unixkill -broadcast
> > 
> > The problem I'm seeing is that when `something' is going on on my
> > X terminal (e.g. I move a window or a tar tv produces lots of output
> > in an xterm window) the screen flickers very often. It looks as if
> > bigger parts if not the whole screen is redrawn instead of only
> > the concerned parts of the screen. Sometimes it twitches while
> > nothing happens except that I'm writing in vi. 
> > 
> > Is that a known problem? Can I do anything against it?
> > 
> Try a different -engine Corinna, see if that helps.

Thanks Alan, I forgot to check that.

It works fine for engine 1 while engine 2 and 4 (the DirectDraw
stuff) result in that ugly twitching.

Corinna

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