On Tuesday 14 February 2006 07:26, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)': > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 04:41, a tiny voice compelled Boyd Stephen > Smith > > Jr. to write: > > In konsole you'll want to modify the scheme in use to have a > > transparent (or partially transparent) background (and maybe > > background text color). > > > > The WM-wide transparency is handled with the X composite extension > > (must modify xorg.conf) and kompmgr (which is automagically started > > with your KDE session, if KDE detects the composite extension is > > loaded). The window-bahavior transparency and shadows use kompmgr. > > I tried all this a while back and it used too much cpu. It slowed my > XP2400/1gigRAM system down to unacceptable levels. Has this been > corrected in KDE 3.5.x?
I didn't even notice the additional CPU usage, but I'm on 2x 275 Opteron system. I have a friend who is on an 2200+ athlon and he said it started out not so bad and then gradually creeped up until it was 80% of CPU; he did have backing store enabled, IIRC. He also isn't using dual 7800 GTXs either, so that could have something to do with it. Although it was pretty and pretty useful, I turned it off because there's some wierd kopete bug that causes X to crash when opening chat windows. It goes away when I turn composite off in the KDE control panel. (So, the composite extension is present, but kompmgr doesn't really do anything.) I may go back in the future and try to just turn off transparency for kopete windows... I also didn't try it with AllGLXWithCompostie off, but that's because I still want GLX available. Composite is still considered experimental, and GLXWithComposite even more so, so I wouldn't expect it to work for everyone. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
