Re: X.org experiences

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 the mental interface of
Hugo Vanwoerkom told:

> Hi!
> 
> Just for the record, I'd like to note my experiences with X.org
> 6.8.2
> 
> I needed to patch it to make by mylti-seat Linux work. No big
> deal.
> 
> After the compile (2.5 hours) and install and change of the config
> file:
> 
> 1. Yes you get shadowed, fuzzy or hard windows.  2. Yes you get
> translucent windows.
> 
> But it is excuciatingly slow (for my 850MHz Athlon) when you do
> that.  And every so often the server dies and gdm restarts.
> 
> And there is no evdev protocol for the mouse.
>
> I used this as a guide:
> http://blogs.vislab.usyd.edu.au/index.php/Steve/2004/09/09/installing_a_non_intrusive_x
> 
> For the time beig XFree86 with Sarge is better I think.

Xorg stolen from Ubuntu works lika charm on i386|ppc. The
translucent windows you mentioned are slow on every cpu as the
xcompmgr from freedesktop is a bit buggy yet.

Elimar

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