[comp.windows.x] slow command buttons

DCOOPER%ESDSDF.DECnet@crd.ge.COM (03/22/89)

> I am running X11R3 with no patches on a color Sun 4/110 OS 4.0 with uwm.
 
> (1) The buttons in the athena Dialog widget are *unbelievably* slow.
> Highlighting and de-highlighting are the most noticeably bad, but
> refreshing is also a killer.  Is this normal?
> 
> This does not happen on Sun-3s.
 

I bet you don't have a floating point chip in your 4/110.  That will
solve your symptoms, although the real problem is why the server is
using floating point to calculate the slopes of horizontal and vertical
lines when it draws the thick borders of the command buttons.

Dwight Cooper
GE Electronic Systems