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Re: 7.4.1 performance problems w/Mandrake 10
- From: Hans Ronne <hronne at comhem dot se>
- To: Jon Leech <nospam at oddhack dot engr dot sgi dot com>
- Cc: xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:02:57 +0200
- Subject: Re: 7.4.1 performance problems w/Mandrake 10
> Since moving to Mandrake 10 (from 9.2), I'm seeing weird performance
>issues from Xconq 7.4.1 (installed from an ancient RPM originally from
>sourceware.cygnus.com).
>
> In summary the UI has become extremely sluggish, response to typing
>takes significantly longer to show up, and when I switch modes ('z'),
>there's no visual evidence of that in the map display until I close and
>reopen the game window. It's suggestive of faulty focus issues but seems
>to be consistent across several WMs (Window Maker, Fvwm).
>
> Could this be related to the Mandrake switch from Tcl/Tk 8.3 -> 8.4?
>I spoofed rpm (put in 8.3 -> 8.4 library symlinks and used --nodeps) to
>get this old RPM to install, so maybe something in Tk changed between
>8.3 and 8.4 that could be affecting the UI?
Possibly. In any case, I would strongly recommend that you use the CVS
sources instead. 7.4.1 is really out of date, and there may be other
problems as well.
Hans