xgl

[Aaron]

On 3/12/06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> Aaron wrote:
>
> > well, i did, and i would doubt that you read through the xgl docs.
> > most of the xgl features are inacessible without the use of compiz.
> > compiz replaces xfwm4. i like xfwm4, and i think compiz sucks in
> > general, which is why i was asking about the inclusion of those
> > features in xfwm4.
>
> Rewriting Compiz in xfwm4 does not make much sense. If you want Compiz'
> features, use Compiz. But did you try to run xfwm4 on top of XGL?
>
> You say Compiz "sucks in general", well, did you try it? What "sucks"?
> Did you try to post on the relevant mailing lists about what you found
> wrong in Compiz? Maybe you could help fixing Compiz?
>

i say compiz sucks in general because its lacking many of the odd
features i like in window managers, but found in xfwm4. i have no
intrest in attempting to patch compiz into a clone of xfwm4, and i
only want a few basic things, like transparent windows on move.

> > because as i said, my graphics card is decent, and has as much onboard
> > memory as my computer, which speeds things up quite a bit as its
> > accessing the stored textures and sending them to the screen, instead
> > of my cpu.
>
> Well, I have a rather old NVidia GeForce 4 MX440 card and it works
> equally well with HW accelerated render and OpenGL with XGL. That's not
> because of OpenGL, it's because NVidia provides decent drivers. Without
> these drivers, neither OpenGL not accelerated render would make the
> compositor usable.
>
> As of onboard memory, when using compositing, all windows contents are
> stored in pixmaps. No need for Xgl for that.
>

well, then the xgl documentation is just lieing, because they claim to
store the windows as textures on the graphics cards memory.

> > im on a slower system, livecd's are quite unusable here.
>
> But the point is, does it make the display any faster? The point is not
> how fast apps start, but how fast is the rendering.
>

im not joking about slower system, i physiclly cant boot a livecd with X on it.

> Oh, and you are running Gentoo? You have everything you need to try
> XGL/Compiz in Gentoo.
>

the guide sucks, im waiting for a decent set of documentation on it
before bothering to install it.

> > i would sugest reading my whole post next time you wish to attempt to
> > flame me, or accuse me of not reading.
>
> I'm not flaming you, sorry if that sounded like that.
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
>
>
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