Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/dos/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.95/text2193.txt

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From: [e-mail] (Phil Kemp)
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Subject: Re: Linux executor help
To: [e-mail] (Mat Hostetter)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 13:27:56 CDT
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Mat Hostetter writes:
>
> Many Mac apps that track the cursor location make frequent calls to
> reset the cursor bitmap, and usually they just keep resetting the
> cursor to the same thing.  In the black-and-white Executor days, we
> would detect when the cursor bitmap wasn't really changing and avoid
> the overhead of telling the window server to change the cursor.  When
> we added color cursor support, we no longer made that check.  So the
> end result was zillions of calls to the X server to keep (redundantly)
> setting the cursor over and over again.
>
> We never noticed this problem on our machines, but apparently the
> cursor flicker is irritating on other machines.  We have fixed this
> problem (in theory), and the fix will be present in 1.99n.

Cool. I must say that on my 486/DX2-66 it is quite noticeable.

Looking forward to 1.99n.
PK


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