On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 19:36 +0100, Robert Thorpe wrote: > On Windows there are two similar operations, using Alt-tab to move > between applications and pressing the "desktop" button which minimizes > all windows. On my machine both of these are much faster, taking much > less than a second. this depends a *lot* on the video interface. under X, switching back to a terminal window and then back to X will sometimes cause a complete reset of the video interface h/w. on my nvidia-driven laptop, for example, i see the behavior you describe. on other systems i have with different video interfaces, it does not exist for me. windows has no equivalent - you cannot toggle in and out of the frame- buffer based display mode. switching desktops under windows is really not equivalent in a technological sense to switching between a frame- buffer controlled X display and a text-driven console. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
