Re: Pager background patch2

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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, sashav wrote:

> backgr2fast in addition feature new technique in showing non-XPM
> files as background. It runs external application to show
> background first time, then, when you change desktop it grabs
> background image from desktop and uses it afterwards, when you switch
> back, instead of running external application again. It is much faster.
> To do that indeed I needed to do minor change to afterstep - 
> if you run application from different desktop, it now first creates
> window,and only then changes desktop. I don't think that there
> will be any problems with that, but just in case you wouldn't want that
> change, I've included 'slow' version that does not provide this new 
> functionality.
> 
> Both patches goes on 1.5pre7 clean distribution (without patch1
> installed).
> 
> Bug reports are appreciated.
> Have fun.

Hmm, the background grabbing is not a good feature on my system.  It eats 
932k of memory when the backing pixmap is allocated.  That's more than 
the AfterStep process uses!  It is much faster, but the memory overhead 
is too high, IMO.

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