Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!uxc!garcon!flute.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Better interactive performance Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 89 19:10:53 GMT Sender: news@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 17 When running X, emacs & latex on my sun-3/60, I notice a bit of a detail in setting the focus. In particular, I can move the cursor from my emacs window to an xterm window, type a few characters & have them appear in the emacs window. Presumably, this is because I use auto-focus, and both X and `twm' (the WM I'm using) need to execute before the focus can change to my xterm window. Is there a simple way to fix this? I've /etc/renice'd -5 my X server, so it should get scheduled quickly, but tracking delay is still noticeable. Also, I tried renicing `twm', but then recalled that this will nice all the new children of twm. Does anyone else have a solution, or perhaps a set of patches to TWM to run ``niced'' but to fork children as ``normal''?