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Re: metacity really slow to move windows



Well, good question :)

The machine where metacity is slow runs a GeForce with the Nvidia
('nvidia' not 'nv') driver.

The machine where metacity is fast runs a basic ATI card (Mach64 driver)



Le mer 08/01/2003 à 19:25, Sven Luther a écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:02:27PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> > Hello list and first of all, a very big THANKS to all of you who make
> > Gnome2 possible on debian. It's really great.
> > 
> > I've noticed that metacity is really slow to move a gnome-terminal
> > window when transparency is enabled in the term. As soon as I disable
> > transparency, it's faster.
> > 
> > I wondering what is the source of the slow motion since I run gnome2 on
> > another PC which is fast even when transparency is enabled. Strangely,
> > the PC which is running the stuff well is the slower machine...
> > 
> > Ant idea ?
> 
> What about the graphic card ? Altough i don't know how gnome-terminal is
> drawing when using transparency (alpha channel and double source
> blitting come to mind) and maybe on one box this is being hardware
> accelerated and on the other not. 
> 
> Also the resolution and depth of your displays may have some influence.
> Not running XFree86 in full (2D) acceleration may be another concern.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
-- 
Alexis Sukrieh <alexis@sukria.net>



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