Angband under X11

[Magnate]

This is only relevant if you run under X-windows, using either -mx11, -mgtk or -msdl.

A Debian user has reported a bug about "a huge number of X requests". I assume he was talking about -mx11, but it's not certain.

If you play under X, have you ever noticed Angband making your system sluggish? If so, please post which version, which X desktop, and which angand invocation you used. Let me know as much as you can - whether it slowed down instantly, or reproducibly etc. Did quitting and reloading help, etc.

Thanks.

[Tobias]

For me the GTK version runs slow as molasses. It is unusable for me.
This happens for trunk and 3.1.1 and i think it also happened in 3.0.9.

The sdl version hogs on cpu for a short time while i move a window that overlaps the sdl window (like opening my E-mail client, or if my browser sends a popup) or when I move a sdl subwindow. Those cpu loads show up in the X process in top.
Those are only short bursts so they don't really get in my way.

If i think about the behavior it might be that if you overlap a transparent window over angband sdl it might seriously cause trouble.

[d_m]

If i think about the behavior it might be that if you overlap a transparent window over angband sdl it might seriously cause trouble.

In this case it could be X Screensaver drawing a window over top of the Angband window.

[pav]

I used to have a problem on my Asus Eee (with the original IceWM vendor setup), same symptoms when running Angband, but only when maximized. (I moved my banding to the big PC since then.)