f.carone wrote:
I was originally interested in the improved open source Radeon code with DRI and have not tried the composite and transparency in your question.Try it if you can, as I'd like to know if this is an issue of my installation or not. Googling a bit, it seems this 'slowlyness' affects ATI cards but not nVidia ones. Cheers, fc
+++++++++++++++++++ I found the xcompmgr and transset at ubuntu. The first time I had the transparency enabled caused the Xserver to almost freeze. That was much worse than just being slow. I have been trying a few more settings without any solution. I need to read more about the new special effects before I know if my configuration is correct. They probably won't be widely implemented for quite a while anyway. My first experience was bad although I could see the transparency in action. I am still very happy with the new Xorg X11 compared to the old Xfree86. :-)