T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

2009-11-02 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Hi, Hard hang on ThinkPad T41 on Karmic Koala. Probably other "older" systems. The current default "Change Desktop Background"->"Visual Effects" in Karmic is "Normal". On my ThinkPad T41, the Karmic version overwhelms the machine and causes a hard hang. I was able to resolve this o

Re: T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

2009-11-02 Thread Evan
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:31 PM, LD 'Gus' Landis wrote: > Hi, > > Hard hang on ThinkPad T41 on Karmic Koala. Probably other "older" > systems. > > The current default "Change Desktop Background"->"Visual Effects" > in Karmic is "Normal". > > On my ThinkPad T41, the Karmic version overwhelms

Re: T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

2009-11-02 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Dear Evan, I will file a bug report... Thanks for the pointer. You are correct.. I am running "/usr/bin/metacity --replace" and getting splendid response on my machine (with "Visual Effects" = "None". To get the bad performance experienced, gconf-editor-> apps->metacity select compos

Re: T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

2009-11-02 Thread DULMANDAKH Sukhbaatar
I have t41 too. But it's working fine with compositing. It has radeon 7100 mobile graphics card. I don't like compiz, so I disable it not from command line doing hard thing, but from menu system -> display and so on. Kind regards Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar http://www.dulmandakh.com http://www.twitter.

Re: T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

2009-11-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 07:58 +0800, DULMANDAKH Sukhbaatar wrote: > I have t41 too. But it's working fine with compositing. It has radeon > 7100 mobile graphics card. There are many different T41 configurations and some have old Intel onboard chipsets. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-

Re: T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

2009-11-03 Thread Evan
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:29 PM, LD 'Gus' Landis wrote: > Dear Evan, > > I will file a bug report... Thanks for the pointer. > > You are correct.. I am running "/usr/bin/metacity --replace" > and getting splendid response on my machine (with "Visual > Effects" = "None". > > To get the bad per

Re: T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

2009-11-03 Thread GĂ©rard BIGOT
2009/11/3 Evan > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:29 PM, LD 'Gus' Landis wrote: > >> Dear Evan, >> >> I will file a bug report... Thanks for the pointer. >> >> You are correct.. I am running "/usr/bin/metacity --replace" >> and getting splendid response on my machine (with "Visual >> Effects" = "None