How fast is Xfce's composite manager?

Erik Harrison erikharrison at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 18:29:37 CET 2005


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:27:58 +0100, Alexander Toresson
<alexander.toresson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've heard Xfce's composite manager should be quite faster than
> xorg's xcompmgr. However, it's not compiled into the packages I got
> from os-cillation.de.
> 
> I'm on a p2 300 with 64 mb ram, which hasn't got any 3d card.
> Is it worth installing xfce4 with the graphical installer to test
> it out, or will it just be too slow? Xcompmgr ran at less than
> 1 fps.
> 

It will be incredibly slow.If you are incredibly lucky, you might get
3 frames a second.

You'll be running composite purely in software, and the software
fallback is less than optimimally implemented anyway, and you don't
have a lot of hardware.

Running with the Vesa drivers, and -any- compositing manager is almost
unbearable here, with 512 megs of RAM, and a 2Ghz proc.

> Regards, Alexander Toresson
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