Name: dmR10075 Date: 09/10/2003


when you show some toplevel window, sometimes it
takes several seconds for it to become visible. During this time, the
application is frozen - if there are other AWT toplevels you won't be
able to interact with them.

You can observe this problem with test/java/awt/Frame/DisposeStressTest
- run it on Solaris/CDE/dtwm and notice how quickly frames
appear/disappear, how fast other windows on the screen blink because of
focus changes.

Now run it either on Solaris/Gnome or Linux/Gnome/Metacity and notice
that sometimes the applications freezes for sometime - no new window
appears on the screen, and other windows(try Instructions dialog) are
unable to receive focus. If you obscure their content during this time
they won't be repainted. This happens with both XAWT and Motif toolkits,
with 1.4.x, 1.5, probably with some earlier releases as well.
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