From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nqf5t-0001yU-7j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:06:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D04D8E0773 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:06:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29062E084B for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:34:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D251B402E for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:34:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.019 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.019 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.420, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3uxF1eJpaWhW for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E447B1B4065 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqeaO-0004ti-1o for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:33:52 +0100 Received: from athedsl-372456.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.6.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:33:52 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-372456.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:33:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Compiz effects vs kwin Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:34:04 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4B9C3376.60004@gmail.com> <4B9C5084.5000501@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-372456.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100307 Thunderbird/3.0.3 In-Reply-To: <4B9C5084.5000501@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: cc5702ce-9dac-4010-bcbd-60f0bfb6eb33 X-Archives-Hash: 51a5d482a537fd28d56ed34570bc1fa1 On 03/14/2010 04:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 03/14/2010 02:53 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: >>> The effects in kwin (such as window wobble) are vastly less smooth than >>> that in compiz. I have noticed that compiz is faster in both kde4 and >>> in gnome (with slight preference to gnome in speed) and wondering if >>> this is normal, or something to do with my kwin setup. Running on GM >>> 965 >> >> kwin got crappy animation speed in KDE 4.4. It was as smooth as >> compiz in 4.3. I asked about it in the KDE mailing list, but there >> was zero interest in this regression. So you either have to live with >> it, or switch to compiz. >> >> > Thanks for your reply. I am currently using kde 4.3 because I try only > to update to downstream-stable. Is there another explanation? Too old drivers and X maybe. Since you're using downstream-stable, but the cool DRM/GL/KMS stuff is only in the latest upstream versions, this might be the problem.