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On 10/9/06, b.n. <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Today I tried to enable the composite extension on my Xorg. Nice eye |
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> candy :) and everything works pretty good. |
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> The only problem is that sometimes the CPU usage shots to > 80% for |
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> intervals of 20-60 minutes (at pretty random intervals, but it seems to |
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> me that switching desktops a lot helps the bug to come out) and then |
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> quietly settles out. If I kill xcompmgr the CPU usage instantly comes |
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> down to almost zero. Restarting composite makes the CPU usage rise again |
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> to something like 10-20% (it depends), quite high but bearable. |
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If you *really* want eye candy, try using beryl and emerald from the |
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portage-xgl layman overlay. ;-) |
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I am pretty sure though that xcompmgr and friends (kcompmgr) are dead. |
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Bugs I've reported against KDE 3.5's compositing issues have been |
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closed with "WONTFIX" and comments that indicate this. |
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The current way things are going is to use compositing window managers |
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such as compiz, beryl, metacity, <whatever xfce4's wm is named>, etc. |
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-Richard |
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