From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from minster.york.ac.uk ([144.32.128.41]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <24143>; Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:01:22 -0500 From: mhw@minster.york.ac.uk Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 09:58:32 -0500 Message-ID: >From: Mark H. Wilkinson Subject: samterm's bitmap depths. To: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Sender: "Mark H. Wilkinson" X-Mailer: Sendmail/ream v4.12bv i've recently moved from a mono machine to a colour machine. having built sam on this new machine i find that when i get a few windows open within sam the machine starts to swap and generally get sluggish. what i think is happening is that samterm is allocating all its bitmaps to be 8 bits deep (even though they're all monochrome) and it's clogging up the server. i think 9term uses 1 bit deep bitmaps no matter what display it runs on. i've played around setting X resources, but to no effect (other than BadMatch errors). anyone else experienced this and found a work around or patch? or do colour suns just go slow? -Mark.