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All windows redraw when moving or resizing a window

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wimdehaan

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Thursday, February 8th 2007, 3:28pm

All windows redraw when moving or resizing a window

Hi,
I have a problem with a remote xwindows connection running kde.
It runs on Reflection X in xdmcp mode.
Each time I move or resize a window all other windows and icons are
redrawn in kde.
this doesn't happen in a gnome session.
The server has kde 3.3.1 (RHEL-4) installed.
It also doesn't happen on older version of kde (3.05a) runnning on Red Hat 7.3

Does anyone know how I can prevent this annoying effect in kde?

regards, Wim

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Friday, February 9th 2007, 9:38pm

RE: All windows redraw when moving or resizing a window

Ok I found something myself.
Apparently it is kde's window manager (kwin) which is causing the problem.
When I set the environment variable KDEWIN to metacity (setenv KDEWIN /usr/bin/metacity) which is the default gnome window manager, then everything works fine. I also tried it with the wmaker window manager and then the problem is also gone.
Reflection X normally uses the default window manager of the remote server. But you can force it to use a local window manager and then the problem is also gone.

So what is the kwin window manager doing wrong here?

Kind regards, Wim