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

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

Richard Fish ha scritto:
> Yeah, I'm not a fan of Xgl either, but I am of AIGLX, and I was under
> the impression that the open source radeon driver had good support for
> AIGLX.  I'm using nvidia, so I had to wait for the 9xxx driver release
> before I could use it... :-(

I was under the impression AIGLX was dying in favour of Xgl. Well, I'll 
do my research :)

> You can disable most of that of course if you want.  If all you want
> is shadows and transparencies, you can configure just those plugins.

Ok. I once thought that the trend was with Composite taking care of 
shadows and transparences, while Xgl/AIGLX were about 3d-eye candy, but 
it would have made little sense indeed.

> I find the task switcher that displays live images of the windows, and
> the scale effect (move the cursor to a corner of the screen and all
> windows shrink and tile on the screen, and then you click on the one
> you want to switch to) to be the most useful, 

Yes, an Exposè-like thing would be really useful. Is it *fast*?

> although I could watch
> my windows wobble and jiggle all day!

lol!

> For simple things like shadows and transparency, that could be done
> independently of the window manager.  But for more complicated
> effects, like the task switcher, or being able to animate window
> operations, or flash windows that want attention, or the desktop cube
> thingy, you need tighter integration with the window manager.

Sigh. I see. I wonder if/when common WMs/DEs will support these things 
out of the box (KDE, XFCE and Fluxbox are my favourites :) )

m.
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