On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2008 22:35:20 +0200 > "Alexander Toresson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Daniel Dickinson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > With an accelerated video card with composting enabled in xorg.conf >> > and for compositing works under GNOME, using compositing in Window >> > Manager Tweaks results in X consuming huge amounts of CPU bringing >> > the system to a crawl. >> >> Compositing under gnome -- is that with compiz or with the compositor >> metacity has gained lately? >> Because compiz uses opengl for effects, while xfwm4 and metacity use >> xrender. > > That was with compiz. It may be that metacity compositing has the same > the problems; I don't know and am not planning on installing gnome to > find out :-) > > So it could be a problem with xrender; are there other programs that > use that I can test with? >
You could try using xcompmgr; it's a standalone composite manager, and see it it excibits the same problem. // Alexander Toresson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
