Rippling effect when moving windows or scrolling

TerryJ listmail at exemail.com.au
Sat Mar 10 21:50:40 CET 2007


Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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> TerryJ wrote:
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>> I've got Xfce 4 (version 4.3.99.2 (Xfce 4.4 RC2)) on KateOS 3.2, where 
>> it's the default desktop.  Now I have to use fuzzy language.
>>
>> When I scroll on a page, the page seems to have a wave moving below it.  
>> It's like watching a series of related camera frames in sequence, or 
>> slides.  It's very distracting.  A similar thing occurs when I move a 
>> window.
>>
>> I cannot find any relevant settings and don't know whether the two 
>> things are related.  Does anyone have any ideas?
>>     
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> You probably have the compositor enabled but your hardware is too slow
> to repaint the screen at an acceptable rate..
>
> Use wmtweaks to disable compositing:
>
> Settings => Xfce 4 Window Manager Tweaks => Composior (last tab or the
> right) and disable compositing.
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> HTH
> Cheers,
> Olivier.

Thanks.  There is no such tab.  That value in wmtweaks.xml is set to 0.  
Which means disabled, doesn't it?

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Regards, TerryJ

Using Xfce on PCLinuxOS 0.93 and KateOS 3.2. www.revivalcentres.org




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