[GRASS5] [bug #1759] (grass) d.what.sites: very slow over a network connection

[Glynn Clements]

Harmisch Bowman via RT wrote:

> Using the non-5.0.x d.what.sites over a 10Mbit ssh connection down the hall is
> very slow & uses a ton of bandwidth during the "vector blink" stage. The
> cursor doesn't return to crosshairs for several seconds, to the point where it
> is unusable. (sites file contains a total of 4 sites)
> 
> see also:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/1380
> 
> blame:
> R_panel_save() & R_panel_restore() sending xwd over the X connection, followed
> by a disk write to a temporary file.
> 
> but what can be done to fix the problem?

Simply revert the changes. The driver architecture wasn't designed to
do this sort of thing.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>