Bart Smaalders wrote: > > If what you mean is that I need to select first if I want to use > a compositing window manager+xserver, that makes perfect sense. > > Don't I still care about delivered client performance, though? > Or does it all go so fast that it doesn't matter? > It still matters, but it may get masked.
A user running x11perf under CDE/KDE/GNOME will see fairly consistent results for each of the tests. The selection of one of these desktops should not significantly change the results of any of the tests. A user running x11perf under a compositing desktop may see big differences in results depending upon which desktop is being run and which features are enabled. Per your original suggestion, the X protocol traffic may have little to do with the delivered desktop graphics performance because so many "extra" operations are done after handling the X request.
