I don't know why they haven't just gone ahead and tattooed serial numbers on the inside of our forearms yet. There's not much difference in the final result.
WindowServer, or to be more specific, the Quartz Compositor (itself a part of the WindowServer process) is also responsible for compositing all the windows into one image to send to your graphics card. While the Finder draws the items that reside on the desktop, it sends them to WindowServer to composite the images of each item onto the desktop. one. item. at. a time.*
Thank you very much for this information. That's what I (and I'm sure many others) really wanted to know about what WindowServer was doing.
But geeze, man, OSX gives you a whole home directory with a nice little Desktop/Documents/Pictures/Music breakdown-- learn to use it...
I do know how to use it. My desk gives me nice drawers and hanging folders for filing things, too, but incoming mail, reference books, etc. still sit on top of that desk. Sometimes longer than they should, but I shouldn't be penalized for using that desktop for its intended purpose.
Likely, WindowServer got itself all tied into knots for some other reason entirely, and rebooting put an end to all that, not clearing off the desktop.
Nope. Previous reboots (and there were several in the troubleshooting process) had no effect on the amount of CPU used by WindowServer. Clearing the desktop was the only action that fixed the problem.
I had been watching Activity Monitor, and an app called WindowServer was taking vast amounts of CPU, especially during startup of other apps (things would bounce 'forever' in the doc before opening.) It wasn't a pre-binding problem either. I finally thought I might clean off my computer's desktop (there were about 340 items there, as it's both my default download folder and the place I drag images and clippings to from Safari.) I simply dragged everything into a folder that I created on the desktop, restarted for luck, and all the snappiness was back.
WindowServer is behaving itself now, and everything loading quicker and working more as expected. I don't know exactly what WindowServer does, but I do know it hates a 'dirty desktop.'
I thought, well, I'll just download iTunes again, log in as me, and it'll start re-downloading the $1,500.00 worth of digital songs I bought from Apple.
What about all the pr0n you bought? Have you bought any more since?
This means that you can get away with fewer administrators...
Which is the biggest roadblock keeping OSX from becoming popular in the corporate environment. Are you going to specify Macs if it means certain downsizing of your department in the near future? Are your fellow IT staff going to let you get away with it?
At worst, PPC hardware wouldn't begin to become obsolete until June '06, and even then only for those living on the bleeding edge. I'm thinking this will be a great time to get a good deal on a PPC Mac, because of all the people who think that it's obsolete right now.
Of course, I'm posting this from a G3, so what would I know.
2. Problems of Mac OSX (performance, one button mouse): non-existant.
OSX has the problem that it can only use a one button mouse? I wonder how the hell I've been using my 3 button scrollwheel Kensington mouse with no additional drivers all this time.
McDonalds isn't any "decent European cafe" and they certainly aren't serving it in nice ceramic cups.
Compared to other restaurants serving in paper cups, McDonalds was serving 20 degrees higher, and had been warned about it many times before.
Now if only it would play a CD without forcing me to enter a contractual relationship with iTunes (which I am not interested in doing) I'd be less disappointed in it.
iTunes is just an app. You mean you don't like the EULA?
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It isn't iTunes that prevents me from "buying" from any of the other online music stores. It's the clients required by those stores that prevent me.
I don't know why they haven't just gone ahead and tattooed serial numbers on the inside of our forearms yet. There's not much difference in the final result.
Or at least there should be a warning somewhere.
Seriously.
I had been watching Activity Monitor, and an app called WindowServer was taking vast amounts of CPU, especially during startup of other apps (things would bounce 'forever' in the doc before opening.) It wasn't a pre-binding problem either. I finally thought I might clean off my computer's desktop (there were about 340 items there, as it's both my default download folder and the place I drag images and clippings to from Safari.) I simply dragged everything into a folder that I created on the desktop, restarted for luck, and all the snappiness was back.
WindowServer is behaving itself now, and everything loading quicker and working more as expected. I don't know exactly what WindowServer does, but I do know it hates a 'dirty desktop.'
(It's just DATA, folks. Back it up.)
No, probably not.
Just negating an erroneous moderation. Sorry folks.
There's a reason why they'd rather play with the box than the toy. Respect and support that creativity.
Of course, I'm posting this from a G3, so what would I know.
So, which ICANN member will be first out of the gate as the owner of the celebrity.xxx, sex.xxx, etc. domains?
McDonalds isn't any "decent European cafe" and they certainly aren't serving it in nice ceramic cups. Compared to other restaurants serving in paper cups, McDonalds was serving 20 degrees higher, and had been warned about it many times before.
Damn proprietary wetware.