Composite manager causes graphic gliches

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 19:38:45 CEST 2007


On 7/17/07, Charles A Edwards <eslrahc at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> If you are using Xorg >= 7.1 and Mesa >= 6.5 you can get 3d hw accel
> for Radeons up to and including the 9800 using the Xorg provided ati
> driver (fglrx) and the Mesa drm module.

Xfce doesn't require nor use 3D accel.

> The hoops you may have to jump through to achieve this can vary
> depending upon the distro you are using.
>
> Once this is done you can run xfce's composite using
> compiz/beryl and still enjoy direct rendering and your games.

How that? Compil/beryl are window managers, only one window manager
can run at a time, so it's either Copiz/Beryl *or* xfwm4 compositor
but *not* both.

Cheers,
Olivier.



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