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- From: twriter@rd.hydro.on.ca (Timothy Writer)
- Subject: How to speed up X?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.223141.8855@rd.hydro.on.ca>
- Keywords: X Xsgi
- Reply-To: twriter@rd.hydro.on.ca
- Organization: "Ontario Hydro - Research Division"
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 22:31:41 GMT
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- Recently, I acquired AutoCAD (R11) for an IRIS 4d/210 GTX running IRIX
- 4.0.1. I mention AutoCAD only because certain aspects of its interface
- highlight what I believe are deficiencies in SGI's X server. For
- example, AutoCAD uses a crosshair for the mouse cursor, drawn with a
- full height vertical line and a full width horizontal line. With AutoCAD
- running and displaying locally (DISPLAY is :0.0), cursor movement is
- unacceptably slow: when I move the mouse I can see both lines of the
- crosshair being redrawn. However, if I display AutoCAD on my PC (using
- XVision) cursor movement is near instantaneous.
-
- My questions: Why is SGI's X server slow compared with a PC based X
- server? What can I do to speed it up?
-
- Thanks for your help.
-
- Tim
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