On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:31:14AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i've read: > > -sync > Make X calls synchronous. This slows down the program considerably, > but may be useful for debugging purposes. > > i don't understand this. what does it mean to make X calls > synchronous? > > i think i remember reading that in order to save "bandwidth", X will > sometimes cache events. does --sync force X to send event as they occur > and not cache them? Exactly. xlib bei defaults is forced to send all the requests only if a request returns some data. As long the client program is working only by value-less functions xlib is free to manage when it sends a request on it's own. This might be a nice performance hack, but it makes for quite some funny debugging -> That's why one can make X calls synchronous. Andreas _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
