Log-off screen painting noticeably slower

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:23, Pavel Rosenboim wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 03:38, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > 
> >>We now return to our regularly scheduled beta testing in progress...
> >>
> >>I keep my Severn system regularly up2dated. Lately I've noticed when I
> >>select "Log out" the display no longer darkens smoothly. Now it makes
> >>three distinct passes -- each a little darker than before and separated
> >>by a half beat -- as it displays "Are you sure you want to log off?"
> >>
> >>My X configuration is:
> >>ATI Rage 128 Mobility
> >>LCD Panel 1600x1200
> >>DefaultDepth 24
> >>XFree86 4.3.0-32
> >>
> >>Is anyone else noticing this behavior? Mike Harris?
> > 
> > 
> > I think this is due to a change in gnome-session. Previously it always
> > did N steps, while now it does the animation in M seconds, with as many
> > steps there is time for. So, the amount of steps depends on hw
> > performance to avoid being really really slow on slow systems.
> 
> Well, it's really really slow on my remote session. Is there any way to
> change this behavior?

I don't know of any.

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