Re: [9fans] once more: drawterm osx-x11 on x86-64

[Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>]

Some people prefer the X11 version as the refresh speed may be higher.  That’s
fine, though I prefer having rio resize working so I can full screen the app
on a second display with CONF=osx-cocoa.

I reduced the flicker in the drawterm-cocoa osx-cocoa version a while back.
The flicker and window edges not meeting during a move is still there and
more prevalent on slow connections or a slow cpu.

There are a slew of X11 related changes to support rio resize that I’ve
been meaning to push out at some point.  Since migrating to OSX 10.10
the X11.app is mostly broken, and no longer supported/released by Apple,
so my motivation to finish the changes has dwindled significantly.  In fact,
the latest X11 update doesn’t extract and install cleanly on OS X 10.10, so
updates might take a while.

-jas



> On Feb 26, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Mark van Atten <vanattenmark@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A while ago, I reported on a problem I had with flicker and broken window edges
> in drawterm-cocoa CONF=osx-x11. See the email copied below. It led to a brief
> exchange.
> 
> With my present configuration, that problem remains:
> OSX 10.9.5
> drawterm-cocoa 2014-12-02
> 
> However, I just tried rsc's drawterm 2013-07-02,
> and there the problem is absent.
> 
> I take it there are not many users of drawterm on OSX,
> either jas' or rsc's distribution, who
> use the x11 version -- are there? I'd be interested
> to compare notes.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Mark.
> 
> 
> 
> From: Mark van Atten <vanattenmark@gma...>
> Subject: drawterm osx-x11 on x86_64
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:40:14 +0100
> 
> For the record---to compile drawterm
> (http://code.google.com/p/drawterm/) with CONF=osx-x11 on x86_64 (in
> my case running 10.8.5), just add the required substitution to the
> makefile:
> 
> Make.osx-x11
> 
> 20 - arch=`uname -m|sed 's/i.86/386/;s/Power Macintosh/power/'`; \
> 20 + arch=`uname -m|sed 's/i.86/386/;s/Power
> Macintosh/power/;s/x86_64/amd64/'`; \
> 
> For the moment, I prefer this to drawterm-cocoa because there is no
> flicker, and window borders remain intact when reshaping with B1 or
> B2.
> 
> Mark.
>