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Performance problems on slow Win98 computers
- From: Shachar Shemesh <cygwin at shemesh dot biz>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:05:57 +0300
- Subject: Performance problems on slow Win98 computers
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi all,
I'm trying to use a win98 computer (about 200MHZ) as a full screen dumb
terminal to a Linux computer running KDE, using XDMCP. Everything works,
but I'm having severe latency problems with this setup.
When I switch to faster computers, the latency problem goes away. The
problem seems to be with the cygwin/X load on the computer.
I have read somewhere that cygwin's X will use a shared memory driver if
one is available. Could me not running the driver be the cause? Where
can the driver be found (what cygwin package)? Or is it just that the
computer is simply not fast enough to run our X server?
Another question has to do with shift processing. When I run xev, I can
see that pressing the right shift causes a "LSHIFT" to be received. This
is blocking certain applications that switch paragraph direction using a
ctrl+lshift or ctrl+rshift combination. Is this a configuration problem
on my end?
Shachar