Menus: unnecessary repaints?!

[Wilco Greven]

On Thursday 05 June 2003 17:20, Dik Takken wrote:
> An extreme example, when you pull down a menu from the menu-bar of
> Konqueror and start dragging the mouse across the menubar, KDE can't
> keep up drawing each menu being pulled down and restoring the
> webpage at the background of the previous menu. It feels quite sluggish.
> When you do the same with Mozilla, you will notice a large speed
> improvement. Apparantly, KDE needs much more drawing operations to do the
> same thing.

Running the X server with the backing store (and thus save--unders) enabled 
will give you a much better performance in this particular case.

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Greetings,
Wilco