Why is resizing a GUI plot window so slow?
On Linux, in some desktop environments, you may have noticed that when you resize the GUI or a Plotman widget (by clicking and dragging one of the edges or corners) it redraws the plot many, many times, each one slightly larger (or smaller), until it reaches the size you selected. We’ve tried to fix this problem, but haven’t come up with a solution. The problem is that the Window Manager wants to show the contents while resizing. However, there is a work-around. If you can switch to using the KDE desktop, you can turn off that ‘feature’. Once in the KDE desktop, from the Main menu, go to Control Center, Desktop, Window Behavior and turn off the option to show contents while resizing. This problem doesn’t occur on Windows platforms.
