Slowness in compositor

[Alexander Toresson]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:22 PM, John Coppens <john at jcoppens.com> wrote:
> Hello people.
>
> Feeling slightly adventurous, I enabled the compositor for the first
> time. I know it has been there for a while, but for some reason I never
> got around to using it.
>
> Beautiful!
>
> ... but, when playing video with mplayer, the slowness interferes.
> Opening a movie in a smaller window still runs more or less acceptable,
> but full screen is impossible to watch. I have:
>
> # NVidia GeForce card with binary driver (latest version)
> # An AMD64 processor at 2.2GHz
> # mplayer set with -vo gl2
>   (-vo xv is worse)
> # xorg 7.4
>
> I had google look around in the xfce.org site, and found no solution. (A
> similar problem with mplayer was reported, but never answered).
>
> Any suggestion would be appreciated. Is it possible to disable compositor
> just while viewing video in fullscreen?
>

Tick "Display fullscreen overlay windows directly" in the Compositor
tab in the wm tweaks.

// Alexander