Re: foregrounding x apps on launch
Re: foregrounding x apps on launch
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:11:24PM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Unfortunately, this is not always working as it should:
>
> With quartz-wm, the first xterm often appears on top of the other
> windows, but it doesn't have the focus, so whatever you type appears in
> one of the other windows.
>
> With other window managers, the newly started X11 apps often start their
> windows behind everything else, and sometimes even clicking on them
> doesn't bring them to the foreground.
>
> This is still rather buggy.
This is UNIX - you probably can't predict what order the windows appear
in. They will *probably* appear in the order they were launched, but
not necessarily; there will be all manner of races between the starting
processes competing for the scheduler's attention. It would all depend
quite heavily on what else the machine is doing at the time.
Plus, my experience so far of Mac OS X (quite limited - only a couple of
weeks) is that its scheduler is quite different from other UNIX variants
I have used - performance seems to degrade very quickly under load,
compared to, say, Linux. The user interface slows down a *lot* if one
process goes into a tight CPU spin.
Tim
--
Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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