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From: hmm@heeg.de (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Subject: Re: [VW 2.5.1 / Windows 95] Sluggish Rubberband
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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:03:26 GMT
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Robert Fischer (fischer@fokus.gmd.de) wrote:
: VW drives my crazy: when I open a new window in interactive placement mode it  
: takes about two seconds:
: 1. the cursor appears at the upper right of a rubberband
: 2. waiting, waiting, waiting
: 3. the cursor jumps to the lower right
: 4. I may resize the rubberband

: Is there a fix out there?

In the Settings tool, set Window Placement to Automatic.
Querying the user for the initial window frame is a relic
from the old Smalltalk-80 times. Only some X window managers
still do it, must other GUIs don't.

Hans-Martin
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