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Subject: Re: Choppy picture with Sawfish+GNOME and fxtv
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recall that sawfish has the librep interpreter as it's core, so it's
possible that having a window manager that uses lisp for a significant
part of it's implementation might be a trifle consumptive...

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> Erich Zigler <erichz@superhero.org> types:
> > I recently changed WindowManagers from Blackbox to Sawfish+GNOME. Ever since
> > then the fxtv picture has been really choppy. I load up Blackbox and the
> > picture is crystal clear with no jerks.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Just one - check to see if there's something chewing up a lot of CPU
> with Sawfish. When I switched from lwm to ratpoison, gkrellm and rp
> were arguing about what size the window should be, chewing up 90%+ of
> my CPU. You may have something similar going on.
>
> 	<mike
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