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Xtoolwait 0.3 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Dec 12 01:45:05 1995
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 01:26:19 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Richard Huveneers <richard@hekkihek.hacom.nl>
Subject: Xtoolwait 0.3 released
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After a month of heavy testing, I'm pleased to announce the release of
Xtoolwait 0.3:
### The most important changes ###
Dec 1 1995: xtoolwait 0.3 released
* xtoolwait demanded that the window manager had completed its
initialisation, which is often not true. Fixed.
Nov 30 1995: xtoolwait 0.2 released
* xtoolwait now compiles under SunOS 4.1.x too :-)
* xtoolwait failed to detect window mappings under tvtwm. Fixed.
Reported by Dick Snippe <D.M.Snippe@el.utwente.nl>.
* Window mappings generated by other X clients are ignored.
* Fixed a possible file descriptor leak.
Reported by Malte Uhl <malte@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>.
* Added the -mappings option.
* Added the -version option.
Oct 12 1995: xtoolwait 0.1 released
### What does this utility offer me? ###
This utility notably decreases the startup time of your X sessions, provided
that you start a number of X clients automatically during the X session
startup.
Most people, for instance, start X clients like xterm, xclock, xconsole and
xosview from their .xinitrc, .openwin-init, .xtoolplaces or .xsession file.
These X clients are started simultaneously (in the background) which puts a
high load on the X server and the OS:
* The X server is not multi-threaded, so all X clients are competing to get
access to the X server and to use its resources, which causes a lot of
overhead (= delay).
* The performance of other (non X related) tasks served by the system degrades
badly due to the high load.
If the system has not enough RAM to hold all the X clients, it is swapping
heavily, resulting again in a lot of delay.
On the Sun platform there is a utility called 'toolwait' which solves these
problems: it starts one X client in the background, waits until it has mapped
a window and then exits.
Xtoolwait is a free implementation of exactly the same idea.
### Copyright ###
Copyright (C) 1995 Richard Huveneers <richard@hekkihek.hacom.nl>
Xtoolwait is released under the GNU General Public License.
The full copyright notice is stated at the start of the source code.
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Title: xtoolwait
Version: 0.3
Entered-date: 01DEC95
Description: Xtoolwait notably decreases the startup time of your X
sessions, provided that you start a number of X clients
automatically during the X session startup.
Xtoolwait starts one X client in the background,
waits until it has mapped a window and then exits.
Keywords: start client wait toolwait
Author: richard@hekkihek.hacom.nl (Richard Huveneers)
Maintained-by:
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xutils
17kB xtoolwait-0.3.tar.gz
Alternate-site: http://www.hacom.nl /~richard/software
Original-site:
Platforms:
Copying-policy: GPL
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Enjoy,
Richard Huveneers
<richard@hekkihek.hacom.nl>
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