Bug#419354: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#419354: xfwm4: moving or resizing a window "blocks" other windows

[Jonathan Black]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:06:52PM +0200, Jonathan Black wrote:
> I've just tried it in some other window managers, twm, fvwm, fluxbox,
> KDE (kwin). Perhaps not very encouragingly, they almost all seem to
> exhibit the same behaviour: windows are blocked from updating when
> moving or rezising a window in "wireframe" fashion.

Following up on this, I see that an old KDE bug report [1] regarding
this issue is marked WONTFIX, as it is seen as inherent problem of
outline moving/resizing. One commenter points to an explanation in the
Fluxbox FAQ [2].

Given the inherent problem described there, one might ask why, as I
mentioned before, Fluxbox's *resizing*, as opposed to moving, does not
block the display in the same way. Good question, but I can at least
confirm that the "sections of rectangle appearing randomly around the
screen" warned against in that explanation, indeed do occur when the
resize outline in moved over changing screen content.

[1] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68843
[2] http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/en/faq.php#outline_moving

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jonathaN