Latest Fedora Xorg and the compositor

[Nikolas Arend]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>Hi
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>NVidia cards with closed source drivers for Linux  can do xrender in
>hardware and that  dramatically improve things. I don't know about other
>brands.
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>See the "COMPOSITOR" fril from xfwm4 source.
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Thanks for the reply, but

1. I don't have a NVidia card :-(
2. I did read the COMPOSITOR file (and all the others ;-)
3. Unfortunately you didn't answer my actual question about how to
    configure the desktop look'n'feel using the compositor ;-)

If your time permits, I'd appreciate a short post on that.

Thanks in advance,
Nick




>On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:39 +0200, Nikolas Arend wrote:
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>>Hi there,
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>>this is probably a silly question...
>>I wanted to give the new compositor a try, so I upgraded my Fedora Core 
>>2 with the latest development version of xorg (6.8.1) and compiled the 
>>latest xfwm4 CVS with --enable-compositor. Everything worked fine, my 
>>xfce4 starts up and of course looks different now: widget shadows, panel 
>>is translucent, etc. Only everything is _very_ slow (panel unhide, 
>>window refreshing, workspace cycling, basically everything). Ok, that 
>>might be due to remaining "imperfections" in both xorg-6.8 and the 
>>compositor (more likely xorg, I presume). But my actual question: is the 
>>compositor something that can be tuned in any way, i.e. can I choose 
>>among any features and change the appearance of the desktop, or does the 
>>compsitor just give a different, but "static" look? If the first is 
>>true, how do I configure things? Do have to tune xorg instead?
>>Forgive my ignorance, I haven't had time to get into this whole 
>>composite thing.
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>>Nick.
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