gnome 2.10, fc4 and drop-shadows

Sat Jan 15 14:34:15 UTC 2005

On 15 Jan 2005, at 15:25, Mike Hearn wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:35:10 +0200, Marius Andreiana wrote:
>> With FC4 which includes gnome 2.10, are there any plans to enable 
>> drop-
>> shadows by default with x.org extensions? (not cpu-intensive)
>
> As far as I'm aware X compositing will be enabled in Fedora when it's
> enabled by default in upstream Xorg releases.
>
> My understanding is that right now there are still problems with it 
> w.r.t
> memory usage and driver compatibility.

I have been able to enable XCOMPOSITE, but it's slow as molasses: 
drawing windows around is very, very sluggish. Surely, something must 
be wrong on my end.