[Xmonad] Resizing speed a major limitation to layout possibuilities

Krishna Rajendran krishna at emptybox.org
Sun Aug 5 15:26:59 EDT 2007


On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:11:58PM -0700, Tim hobbs wrote:
> I find that the slow speed of window resizing is a major limiting factor in
> what layouts I can make.  The Rolodex layout would have had the farther back
> windows be smaller, but firefox takes over a second to resize!  Does anyone
> else have this problem?  Is it something that is likely to go away as linux
> improves?  I think that if this is as bad for others as it is for me, that
> the xmonad community should voice it's concerns about this limiting issue.
> 

I've found firefox to be completely unusable without the right video
drivers. Otherwise, firefox on linux seems as responsive as it is on any
other platform.

Krishna


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