From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DulFR-0008KE-IQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:06:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6J64jHZ031319; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:04:45 GMT Received: from smtp103.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp103.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.169.222]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6J615RY019573 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:01:06 GMT Received: (qmail 22582 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2005 06:02:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.50.105?) (richard?j?fish@212.180.33.26 with plain) by smtp103.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 06:02:01 -0000 Message-ID: <42DC9808.2090402@asmallpond.org> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:04:56 +0200 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE References: <200507181136.52912.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200507181225.48751.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <42DC10B5.7020908@asmallpond.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2a1479aa-8cd7-4e1e-a1c2-6838c7da0717 X-Archives-Hash: 3ba1e8e2e719518ea51687d3de49e032 Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > >> If so, possibly an error with themes or alpha blending... > > But why now? Well, one of the things that has been happening in the xorg/qt/kde world is a move towards more eye-candy with transparency, drop shadows, and so on. My guess is that this version of KDE is trying to use a new method of drawing things, that turns out to be slower than the old (or maybe more accurately, plain) method for your hardware. You might take a walk through the KDE option menus and disable anything that says "drop shadows", "transparency", or most other eye-candy. >> >> Could you post the output "xdpyinfo"...I have a feeling the answer is >> going to be in there. > > > $ xdpyinfo > number of extensions: 33 > BIG-REQUESTS > Composite Could you try disabling this. From googling, it seems that something like the following in xorg.conf should do it: Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection Everything else looks sane. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list