Inkscape lag/low frame rate on OS X.5
Now that I have full functionality with inkscapes latest development version, It seems to be having a little bit of lag, and a VERY low frame rate. i can tell its a frame/refresh rate type thing because I can click or drag or edit, like 4 things really fast, then wait for a few seconds while the screen catches up with what i've done.
could you please tell us: - which version of Inkscape you are using - which version of X11 you are using. I noticed that the X11 version that shipped with leopard was really bad. it is based on XOrg and is therefore theoretically better than the old XFree version but still very far from being good. I would advise to install a new build from XQuartz (an open-source development team working somehow in collaboration with Apple). It may be a bit less stable but is overall much more pleasant: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz
PS: strangely I cannot reply to your message, I can only forward it...
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
I was running Inkscape on my brother's G5 Leopard the other day with the XQuartz 2.1.1 update, and it ran really nicely. It was a bit sluggish at first, and I was quite disappointed, but it ran much better after a reboot. I know Mac and Linux people don't reboot real often, but I'm on Windows where it's par for the course. Anyway, it helped IMHO.
You can also try the pre-release version of XQuartz 2.1.2. Things are moving fast - they're up to release candidate 6 at present, but it was at RC4 just yesterday. The new modular design of Xorg supposedly helps development to be faster, or so I've read. The roadmap also shows several new versions expected in the near future. They also are after bug reports. For now, see http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.2 here for info on 2.1.2 and http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/ here for the downloads.
I am keeping things up to date in the Inkscape wiki under http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InstallHelp InstallHelp
Cheers,
Rygle.
jiho wrote:
I noticed that the X11 version that shipped with leopard was really bad. it is based on XOrg and is therefore theoretically better than the old XFree version but still very far from being good. I would advise to install a new build from XQuartz (an open-source development team working somehow in collaboration with Apple). It may be a bit less stable but is overall much more pleasant: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz
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