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Re: Sun 9.2 screen update slowness

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Jun 11 15:51:41 2003

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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "11 Jun 2003 15:38:20 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:51:37 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>


>If the old bug has resurfaced, then it should be reproducible as
>follows:
> 
>  * Fill the window up with text
>  * Move the mouse pointer around in the window a bunch, making sure to
>    cross over the text.
>  * Notice that the cursor stops blinking and the terminal is otherwise
>    unresponsive for a while.
 
No bad behavior- cusrsor didn't top blinking and terminal stayed responsive.
But selecting several inches of text in the same window at any time took
over 5 sec. New bug?

                                         A.

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