[Xcircuit-dev] Video blanking

[R. T. E. <ti...@st...>]

Dear Dave,

   Obviously I'm not looking often enough through the xcircuit mailing
list.  Anyway, this is an essentially unsolvable problem:  The X server
is at fault, and confuses the timer between the screensaver and xcircuit,
in spite of the fact that xcircuit provides its unique application ID
when it registers the timeout event (well, the problem is either in the
X server or in the screensaver).  An unsatisfactory solution, but one
which works, is to turn off your screensaver.  If necessary, you could
start xcircuit from a script which would revive the screensaver after
you exit.  As I said, it's not very satisfactory.
   I think I will try to abandon the X timeout function altogether and
use a low-level interrupt timer instead.  That might get rid of the
problem.  I'll give that a try, but I'll need somebody who experiences
the problem to test it, since I can't duplicate this particular bug.

						Regards,
						Tim