Gnome and ToME

["Phillip Neiswanger" <sigsegv0 gmail com>]

Hi,

I've been working on ToME(www.t-o-m-e.net) for the last few months and  
I've run into a problem which I'm hoping someone here can help me with.  
Although ToME has a gtk interface, this problem occurs only with the raw  
libX11 interface. Reproducing the problem on my machine is simple and goes  
as follows:

Start ToME
Maximize ToME

Once ToME is maximized, wnck-applet, Xorg and metacity start to use all  
available cpu time. ToME itself has called XNextEvent() and after several  
other internal X function calls is sitting in a call to poll() waiting to  
receive its next event. If instead of using the maximizing button I resize  
ToME manaully to fill the screen, no unnecessary cpu usage occurs with any  
of the applications mentioned earlier. Why would any of these gnome  
applications start eating cpu time for something that ToME is either doing  
or not doing associated with Maximizing? Is there something ToME needs to  
do during initialization or during a resize event to correctly work with  
Metacity?

I am currently running FreeBSD 6.2 and Gnome 2.20.1, but I've seen this  
behaviour with earlier versions of Gnome including 2.18.x and 2.16.x.
--
phil