Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!stan!marvin!toml From: toml@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: mwm with virtual desktop? Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 14:48:26 GMT References: <910501201533.4387@sun.alfalfa.com> Sender: toml@solbourne.com (Tom LaStrange) Distribution: inet Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc. Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: nazgul@alfalfa.com's message of 2 May 91 00:15:33 GMT > > If somebody does this please consider doing it with a seperate virtual > > root window rather than moving all the windows around ala vtwm and olvwm. > > My only problem with this is that it seems to suck up a large amount > of memory. I'm not sure why it would unless backing store is enabled on the virtual root window. The latest patch to tvtwm sets the backing store hint to NotUseful. I did a couple of experiments on my Graphon and found the following memory usage: With one xterm and one xclock tvtwm without the virtual desktop 101310 bytes used tvtwm with the virtual desktop 143228 bytes used I then started one more xterm 157136 bytes used I don't see it as that expensive. -- (I kid you not)Tom LaStrange toml@Solbourne.COM