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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXMeU-0001yP-Iw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:48:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9AIlN4x012196; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:47:23 GMT Received: from aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (aa012msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9AIgUML008274 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:31 GMT Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.105.6) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 452849D5001C4CF3 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:42:30 +0200 Message-ID: <452C0841.20102@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:53:21 +0000 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061003) 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] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to > 80% References: <452AD73D.3060605@gmail.com> <7573e9640610101034h60dd249at759ab008852b84c2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640610101034h60dd249at759ab008852b84c2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4c18255c-945e-4ad0-9f56-df0a88b9e0bf X-Archives-Hash: 122ce245201e38b2bd5dacd3ff13273d > 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, , 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list