On 10/9/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Today I tried to enable the composite extension on my Xorg. Nice eye
candy :) and everything works pretty good.
The only problem is that sometimes the CPU usage shots to > 80% for
intervals of 20-60 minutes (at pretty random intervals, but it seems to
me that switching desktops a lot helps the bug to come out) and then
quietly settles out. If I kill xcompmgr the CPU usage instantly comes
down to almost zero. Restarting composite makes the CPU usage rise again
to something like 10-20% (it depends), quite high but bearable.
If you *really* want eye candy, try using beryl and emerald from the
portage-xgl layman overlay. ;-)
I am pretty sure though that xcompmgr and friends (kcompmgr) are dead.
Bugs I've reported against KDE 3.5's compositing issues have been
closed with "WONTFIX" and comments that indicate this.
The current way things are going is to use compositing window managers
such as compiz, beryl, metacity, <whatever xfce4's wm is named>, etc.
-Richard
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