[Xquartz-dev] 2.5.1_beta1

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Apr 8, 2010, at 05:16, Jack Howarth wrote:

> Jeremy,
>   Interestingly, while Xquartz-2.5.1beta1 doesn't eliminate the delays
> we see in starting pymol (where the Pymol tk window on top lags 30 secs
> or so), I found last night that the current xorg and mesa packages in
> MacPorts does. I am guessing that the issue was fixed with the new
> mesa+hw 7.8.1.

Nope.  I forgot about this because there was no open bug report.  Can you please open one to track this problem?

Also, the mesa-7.8 changes are in 2.5.1_beta1.

> Any idea what was changed in that which would have eliminated
> these lags in pymol?

No clue.

> I have been assuming that the lag was due to some
> OpenGL initialization issues so this does make sense.
>            Jack
> ps Were you actively looking at these pymol issues or is this a lucky fix?

7.8.1 was mainly a header file fix that doesn't really affect us.