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growse
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 Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:31 pm Post subject: Is xcompmgr meant to be really slow and jerky? |
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I emerged ati-drivers (radeon 8500), got the module loaded, enabled glx in the xorg.conf, and did an opengl-update ati. Then I tried to run xcompmgr using just a light drop shadow, and the entire desktop slowed to a crawl.
Now, I know that xcompmgr causes problems for some people, but I assumed it worked smoothly for others. It works properly, but X just becomes really slow. Why would this be?
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TheRAt
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:03 am Post subject: |
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Do you have this enabled in the Devices section of your xorg.conf?
| Code: | | Option "backingstore" "true" |
and this in the extensions sectopn?
| Code: | Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
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You might like to look at this also.
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Has you may know xcomposite is still experimental and so a bit buggy, i think its not ready to be usable normaly maybe only for the screenshot or so, not for really working on it.
but im gonna try it too to see if it stiill is slow in here ...
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Is xcompmgr meant to be really slow and jerky? |
From what ive heard, Yes.
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