[openbox] General Problem (3.4.7.2)

[Rob Lewis]

Alright. I guess i should not have posted a problem without knowing the
specifics and for that I apologize. I do not know how to be more specific
then how i described previously since i do not fully understand the problem.
I just posted because with two similar setups (the only variable here was
the window manager), i found a difference in how the browser/flash performed
(in that the browser did no lock up) when switching back and forth from the
gaming workspace to the browsing workspace.

For now this is no longer a issue for me since switching to dwm with the
same workspace setup *seemed* to solve the problem, so i am staying with
what works for now. I am not even sure if this is a problem that i am
experiencing is related to openbox.

I will be happy to provide more information is others are experiencing the
same issue, which they probably are not.

Thank you,

-Rob

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:48 AM, David Barr <david at chalkskeletons.com>wrote:

> 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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