Re: Snappy GUI response

> Restating your core problem, we might say: X requires app authors to
> understand and code in light of its details in order to write
> responsive apps.  Windows and OS X generally do not. So what we have
> is a user interface issue with the X API ;-)

I think what we have is a toolkit problem mostly. I us a toolkit so it
does all the work for me. Gtk knows about render, it knows about shm
I'd expect it to do the other work too - the more it does the less apps
you have to fix 8)