Latest Fedora Xorg and the compositor

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi

NVidia cards with closed source drivers for Linux  can do xrender in
hardware and that  dramatically improve things. I don't know about other
brands.

See the "COMPOSITOR" fril from xfwm4 source.

HTH
Cheers,
Olivier.


On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:39 +0200, Nikolas Arend wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> this is probably a silly question...
> I wanted to give the new compositor a try, so I upgraded my Fedora Core 
> 2 with the latest development version of xorg (6.8.1) and compiled the 
> latest xfwm4 CVS with --enable-compositor. Everything worked fine, my 
> xfce4 starts up and of course looks different now: widget shadows, panel 
> is translucent, etc. Only everything is _very_ slow (panel unhide, 
> window refreshing, workspace cycling, basically everything). Ok, that 
> might be due to remaining "imperfections" in both xorg-6.8 and the 
> compositor (more likely xorg, I presume). But my actual question: is the 
> compositor something that can be tuned in any way, i.e. can I choose 
> among any features and change the appearance of the desktop, or does the 
> compsitor just give a different, but "static" look? If the first is 
> true, how do I configure things? Do have to tune xorg instead?
> Forgive my ignorance, I haven't had time to get into this whole 
> composite thing.
> 
> Nick.
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