<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eero Tamminen</b> <<a href="mailto:eero.tamminen@nokia.com">eero.tamminen@nokia.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>ext Michael Thompson wrote:<br>>> IIRC, one of the Nokia engineers stated that apps are basically stopped<br>>> (like hitting Ctrl+Z in bash) when they are minimized, and resumed when<br>>> they're foregrounded. I might have made this up, but based on the CPU
<br>>> monitor it certainly would appear that something like that is going on.<br>>> <snip><br>><br>><br>> This might be true in some cases, but for instance Cannola will continue to<br>> play music when minimised, so I'm sure there are plenty of cases where this
<br>> isn't true<br><br>Applications should stop all visual activity and updates when they are<br>not visible. This is voluntarily, as it naturally depends on the actual<br>use-case e.g. all Nokia apps do this except for media player and iradio
<br>applet which play music also backgrounded. If you notice that some 3rd<br>party app has activity although you're not using it and/or it's not<br>visible nor there's no other good reason for it to be active, file a bug
<br>against it.</blockquote><div><br>Fair enough. What I've noticed so far is that claws, for instance, sits in a poll loop and reacts to any key press, whether it's the active window or not, i.e. minimizing the keyboard in xterm.
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