Re: Very Slow Window Movement and Lag

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:29:32 +1000, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Fluxbox users,
> 
> With Opaque Window moving enabled when I move a Window around the screen
> it
> lags behind the mouse pointer considerably.  So much so that I can count
a
> number of seconds depending on how long I wiggle the mouse around the
> screen before the window catches up.  Typing in window (terminals etc) is
> fine and loading windows is quick its mainly moving and resizing although
> resizing is less noticeable as it doesn't draw the window as it resizes
> 
> I orginally thought it was something to do with X and my ATI Radeon card
> and had been troubleshooting it from that perspective until I installed
> openbox and e16 as a test and found that they run perfect and are nice
and
> fast.
> 
> I am running a minimal Debian Lenny AMD64 netinst.
> Graphics card is an ATI Radeon 4850
> 
> I notice that if I use the "Vesa" driver it improves but the slow/lagging
> window problem is still there just not as prominent.
> 
> Perhaps i'm missing some required fluxbox packages???
> 
> Hopefully someone knows whats going on or maybe Ih have found a bug?


Tried the latest version from Debian Unstable and still have same problems 
I tried a few other WM's such as E17, FVWM and those run fine.

I hope someone has some ideas as i like fluxbox but might just have to use
one of the others


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