AIGLX packages for FC5 (and rawhide)
Sam Folk-Williams
sfolkwil at redhat.com
Fri Apr 21 18:26:11 UTC 2006
Sorry -- I figured this out. The drop shadows should just be there if it's
working... I'm at the point where with wobbly it's the blue screen, without
wobbly the composite works but X eats up a lot of cpu, everything drags, and
the colors get sort of weird.... this is the radeon 7000 in a thinkpad t42
Sam
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:51:09PM -0400, Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:00:48PM -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> >
> > $ USE_WOBBLY=1 metacity --replace &
> >
> > - metacity also has an experimental screen magnifier built in. Like
> > the wobbly windows this is enabled by setting an environment variable -
> > USE_MAGNIFIER:
> >
> > $ USE_MAGNIFIER=1 metacity --replace &
> >
>
> As a lot of people are having trouble with these awesome effects - are there
> other effects to play with? Like, how does one enable drop shadows or
> transparency -- or is it just these two for now? Also, where are these
> variables set permanently?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> > - real translucency in gnome-terminal. Enable this by clicking the
> > "Transparent background" radio box in the "Effects" tab of the termnal
> > profile editor dialog. gnome-terminal may have to be restarted for this
> > to take effect - pkill gnome-terminal should do the trick.
> >
> > There are a number of known bugs with these packages, so go easy on
> > bugzilla :). Specifically,
> >
> > - The damage events doesn't always kick in, so sometimes window
> > contents doesn't update properly. A workaround for this is to switch
> > desktop back and forth.
> >
> > - The drop shadows look weird on shaped/argb windows, for example
> > xeyes, the notify bubbles and well, even the rounded metacity corners.
> > The shadow code is due for an overhaul later, so we're not going to
> > patch over this issue in the short term.
> >
> > - Perfomance for in-window updates isn't always great. We're
> > currently doing too much work when updating textures from pixmaps. It's
> > still possible to optimize this further with the current setup, and
> > longer term the memory architecture in the X server and DRI stack will
> > see some changes that will allow us to optimize this further.
> >
> > Have fun,
> > Kristian
> >
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