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From: bryan@alex.com (Bryan Boreham)
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Subject: Re: Xt intrinsics: slow popups
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 11:48:24 +0000
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In article <735259869.13021@minster.york.ac.uk>, cjhs@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
> The application creates window with a button "Quit" and "Press me".
> The button "Press me" pops up a dialog box. The strange feature of
> this program is that it always pops up the dialog box much faster the
> first time. If I try to pop it up a 2nd time (3rd, 4th .... time), 
> it is *much* slower.

The shell is waiting for the window-manager to respond to its
positioning request.  The window-manager is not responding because
it thinks the window is already in the right place.

Exactly *why* the two components get into this sulk is unclear to
me; all information greatly received.

Bryan.
