XFwm Compositor does not like work well with Image Magick import command
Olivier Fourdan
fourdan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 20:10:38 CET 2008
Hi
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Patrick <skibler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have xfwm4.4.2, Image Magick 6.3.8.3, and nvidia driver 169.09.
>
> With the compositor turned on, I used import to take a screen shot:
>
> import -window root screencap.png
>
> This completely stalled the computer for about a minute, after which
> it did finally did produce a screen shot. If I turn the compositor off
> the import command is near instant, as usual.
>
> Has anyone else stumbled across this? I couldn't even ssh into the
> computer while it was happening :(. I am not a programmer and I have
> no idea what may cause this. If I can should provide any more
> information just let me know. Thank you.
I have seen similar behavior (e.g. run glxgears, switch to fullscreen
with Alt-F11 and switch back to the normal size again, the system will
freeze for more than 40 seconds here) but I don't believe this is
related to xfwm4. /me thinks it is an issue with video memory
management but I have no clue on how the NVidia proprietary driver
works.
- Can you move the mouse pointer during the freeze? If not, then the
problem lies in the X server
- Did you try using xcompmgr? Does it show with xcompmgr?
Cheers,
Olivier.
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