Re: metacity slowness
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 23:04, Marek Habersack wrote:
>
> It's probably not exactly the right list to ask this question, but I'm
> starting here since I've heard from slackware and gentoo users that they
> have no such problem on their systems. The problem is simple - metacity is
> painfully slow at repainting windows (or desktop on workspace switch). I
> vaguely remember that the reason for that was that metacity used full
> backing store blits using the pixmap library, which must be quite slow,
> indeed.
The window manager doesn't repaint the app windows (or the desktop, for
that matter), the apps do it themselves.
> I tried to switch to sawfish recently, but it doesn't work correctly
> with the gnome2's panel so I had to switch back (even though it was
> really fast...). It's quite an annoying experience to actually see the
> desktop repainting on a fast machine (Athlon 2400+, 1GB RAM, Hercules
> Radeon 9000 128MB RAM)... I'm running XFree 4.3.0-0pre1v1 with
> xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk, compiled with athlon optimizations.
Do the Slackware and Gentoo users you mention have a comparable setup?
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414 might be related, as the
radeon driver doesn't accelerate the RENDER extension yet.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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