[openbox] General Problem (3.4.7.2)

[David Barr]

Rob Lewis wrote:
> I know this is not very specific, but i am running into the following 
> problems:
>
It is not very specific, no.
> 1) I have 4 'workspaces', first for instant messaging and volume 
> control (pidgin, alsamixer, two terminals), second for xchat, third 
> for gaming, fourth for firefox. The problem i run into is if i have 
> youtube open in firefox playing some music, and i game on the third 
> workspace, i get significant slowdown on the firefox workspace to the 
> point where it is almost frozen.
>
> Now i have run openbox for the last couple months, and i did not think 
> this was an problem until i switched to dwm with the same workspace 
> setup, where i do not experiance the problem. I know this isnt too 
> specific but it made me wonder :)
>
> 2) I noticed switching to dwm that it will acutally update pidgin's 
> away time by hovering the mouse over any pidgin window (im window, or 
> main buddy list window), and i also know that openbox does not do 
> this, since i've experianced 20+ hours of idle time until i finally 
> type a message to myself or someone on my buddy list.
>
I have no idea what you mean. I even installed dwm to test it, I am 
still no clearer, can you clarify?

> I am not sure if openbox is meant to do this or not.
>
> My uname -a is as follows:
>
> Arch Linux: Linux localhost 2.6.30-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 17 
> 16:06:45 CEST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz 
> GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>

There are more important factors here, openbox version, X version, 
composite on/off?

> Any help or insight into the problems would be appreciated :)
>
I'm not really sure what you want, and your original case (1) involves a 
lot of variables outside those you wish to hi-light. I've tried pidgin 
in openbox and dwm and to be honest i have no idea what you mean in 
either wm, i'd even go so far as to worry you are not even using pidgin 
:) -  As a wild guess it might be something to do with the way dwm 
focuses windows on hover?

> -Rob
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