Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to > 80%

["b.n." <brullonulla@gmail.com>]

> If you *really* want eye candy, try using beryl and emerald from the
> portage-xgl layman overlay. ;-)

Yes, I investigated it. But it seems my card is not so well supported by 
  XGL (If you have different experiences let me know) and XGL eye candy 
is (still) not what I was looking for, at least as for what I've seen 
(I'd never use wobbly windows and rotating cubes, sorry). The little, 
subtle effects of composite are enough.

The only defect I can complain -but I suspect it would require a 
rewriting/rethinking of X apps- is that transparency is applied to a 
whole window. This has the side effect of lowering the contrast of 
what's inside the application. In many contexts (not always) - it would 
be very nice to have a transparent *background* of the current window, 
but opaque (and therefore fully contrasted) foreground. Think of a 
terminal, or a text editor, but not only.

Is there some project aiming to this?

> I am pretty sure though that xcompmgr and friends (kcompmgr) are dead.
> Bugs I've reported against KDE 3.5's compositing issues have been
> closed with "WONTFIX" and comments that indicate this.

That's interesting. Can you point me to a link?

> The current way things are going is to use compositing window managers
> such as compiz, beryl, metacity, <whatever xfce4's wm is named>, etc.

I would not like to be forced to change WM. I'd like to have the same 
effects, no matter what WM I'm running. Composite runs independently of 
the WM - why isn't the same for XGL?

m.
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