Re: XQuartz - sudden flips out of full-screen mode?
Re: XQuartz - sudden flips out of full-screen mode?
- Subject: Re: XQuartz - sudden flips out of full-screen mode?
- From: Lars-Johan Liman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:38:22 +0200
email@hidden:
> The only sources of timer based activity within XQuartz are Sparkle
> and X11 clients which themselves use timers. I don't see how the X11
> clients could have this type of impact, so that means that if XQuartz
> is the source of the periodic activity, then Sparkle is probably the
> only such internal source.
OK.
> Well, some people might not be noticing it, especially if they use
> rootless. There may be reasons why the duration of the "flip" may
> vary, so perhaps I do experience it, but I never notice it because the
> duration is less than a single cycle of my refresh rate.
Understood.
> Ah, ok. That is actually expected behavior at that point. The same
> thing will happen for the preference dialog box or the quit dialog box
> if you trigger one of those while in fullscreen.
Sure. And that's OK. It's the flipping into Aqua for _no_ obvious reason
that is the problem. :-)
> I was under the impression that you had a momentary "flip out" while
> Sparkle was just checking (which it does without presenting a window).
Yes, that is the common case for me (as in 98 %) when these flips occur.
> If it doesn't, please file a bug report. Any errors in Gnome-land at
> this point I expect to be related to glib2 API strictness changes that
> went in a few months ago, but I think we've found all of the common
> ones at this point, so things like metacity should be fine, but you
> may have issues with more obscure gnome ports that not many people use
> (again, please file bugs).
Thanks!
Cheers,
/Liman
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
X11-users mailing list (email@hidden)
This email sent to email@hidden