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From: colas@mirsa.inria.fr (Colas NAHABOO)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xterm maps in 2s instead of 7s (Was Re: twm speed up)
Message-ID: <185@mirsa.inria.fr>
Date: 13 Jun 89 15:28:28 GMT
References: <1238@tnoibbc.UUCP>
Organization: Koala Project -- BULL/INRIA
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From article <1238@tnoibbc.UUCP>, by remco@tnoibbc.UUCP (Remco Bruyne):
> In article <1258@isieng.UUCP> pling@.UUCP (Paul Ling) writes:
>>Using twm as a window manager, I always had to wait for several seconds for
>>a new xterm.  I don't see the same problem with uwm.
> We have the same problem with twm and also with awm. We had a quick look
> at it and it appeared that xterm tries to interact with the window manager
> but gets no reply. After a number of seconds the request is timed out.
> 
> We did not want to spend any time in solving this problem, but maybe
> the problem is solved in the next X release.

The solution to fix xterm is to add the in .Xdefaults the line:

	xterm.waitforwm:        false

And Voila! an Xterm in 2.5 sec on any reparenting WM (e.g gwm :-)).

The bug in the xterm code are the lines 2075-2077 in file charproc.c in
the sources of the X11R3 xterm:

      (void) XtMakeResizeRequest((Widget) term,
                                   (Dimension)width, (Dimension)height,
                                   &term->core.width, &term->core.height);

which SHOULD be deleted (or placed elsewhere).

The bug is that xterm is waiting 5 seconds for the WM to resize its window,
while it didn't map it!!!

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