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From: timelord@eos.UUCP (G. Murdock Helms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Windows
Message-ID: <3620@eos.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 17:18:42 GMT
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Reply-To: timelord@eos.UUCP (G. Murdock Helms)
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("David F. Rogers") writes:
>Mark Callow says they are working on the window performance issue for
>release 3.2. He has really missed the point. I want the option of having
>NO window manager.

How about a window manager that has a toggle on it so you can turn it on if
you want it, and off if you don't?  Most of the time the programs we
run on our GTX require windowing, but sometimes they don't, and the
toggle mechanism might be beneficial to a lot of folks using Irises.

Same thing goes for GTX dog...a toggle for shading/no shading on the planes,
and maybe some mechanism to only broadcast dog packets to identified Irises?
Our network administrator goes wild when we try to dogfight after work
and gets VERY unhappy with us!

If the demo development people have a little time on their hands, please
send me email...there's this great demo that would look really great on
an Iris....

-Murdock
timelord@eos.arc.nasa.gov