On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 10:20:15 +0900 Florian Schaefer <list...@netego.de> said:

> On 4/4/21 5:52 AM, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 17:55:23 +0200 Francesc Guasch <fran...@telecos.upc.edu>
> > said:
> > 
> >> Hi. I am running Enlightenment 0.24.99 24520.
> >>
> >> It has always run smooth on my lapton, this is a 2005 Toshiba
> >> with 4 GB RAM. It sports an Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
> >> Integrated Graphics Controller.
> >>
> >> I know I am pushing the limit here, sorry for that. Since the last
> >> release changing windows with ALT-TAB takes 2 / 3 seconds.  After the
> >> window changes the list of tasks is shown and the back desktop is
> >> blurred for a few seconds. Then the selected window is shown and I can
> >> use it.
> > 
> > how is it blurred. the default theme does not blur the background. i tried
> > that a while back in flat but testing on an older machine showed it could
> > not keep up (a 2010 intel laptop with intel gpu) and dropped to like
> > 20-30fps, so i disabled the filter and it just darkens what is below... so
> > what you describe must be an altered theme?
> 
> Sorry if I barge in into the discussion here. Just yesterday I also 
> updated after some weeks again to he current git versions, now with the 
> flat theme, and experienced the same "issue". (BTW, I also ran into the 
> elput issue and had a jolly time figuring out that I need to enable the 
> DRM option.)
> 
> I guess what Francesc intended was exactly this fading to a darker 
> background. On my machine here (i7-3517U) it takes probably about a 
> second. But it is no smooth transition and rather seems to be stuttering 
> along the way, thus feeling really as if the machine is struggling to 
> keep up with rendering this transition. The effect is that the whole 
> process of switching windows feels very sluggish and seems to take ages.
> 
> I was also (unsuccessfully) looking around for a way to switch off this 
> transition effect. Switching between windows with Alt-Tab is a very 
> common action and I would like this to be over in literally in the blink 
> of an eye. One can actually quickly switch windows in the current state, 
> cutting the whole transition short right at the start. Still, I would 
> prefer if I can have the window list either appear instantaneously or 
> with a really fast fade-in and -out.
> 
> (BTW, this is using the window switcher in list mode, not in large mode 
> where this whole background darkening is probably really necessary as 
> there is otherwise no window to separate the list from the normal desktop.)
> 
> Cheers and thanks as always for the great work,
> Florian

also a large number of maximized windows (a lot of pixels to render) will slow
down even the best of gpu's if you have enough of them... smaller windows
render faster in miniature (the input window is smaller). and both the old list
mode and large mode how show these miniatures and thus render everything you
see which costs.. the more you have visible, the more it costs. it costs even
more in software rendering than a gpu... the "i dont even see the fade
animation" hints to me it's software compositing or a very large number of
large windows.

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