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Re: Something I never see in Linux

__/ [ [H]omer ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:57 \__

> Verily I say unto thee, that John Bailo spake thusly:
>> 
>> In Windows, I launch thuderbird email, then visual studio.
>> 
>> On the left hand side of the screen, the tree panel is painting...then
>> studio comes up and I can still see the thunderbird panel right through
>> visual studio!
>> 
>> And the sad thing is that it just struck me today that I accept these
>> things in Windows.   Yet, in Linux, that just doesn't happen!  That's
>> how bad it is.
> 
> I take it you're referring to refresh lag due to slow buffer updates,
> rather than translucency effects?
> 
> I thought Vista's WDDM composite extensions fixed that problem, or are
> you using XP (or a non-Aero build of Vista)?

A /build/ of Vista without Aero? Do they do distros of Windows now? :-)

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