Re: KDE and translucency

<posted & mailed>

Mr Ter wrote:
> I've tried enabling "Translucency" option under KDE to see what it
is
> about. Apart from few crashes (which is understable since it's an
> experimental feature) I've notice very poor performance. Most things
like
> window redraw and movement of windows took much longer than without> translucency. Mu PC has quite an old nVidia 400 MX based card. I
wonder if
> others tried that option and what they have observed in terms of
impact on
> performance.

I had a similar experience with my Geforce FX5700. A transparent
borderless
aterm running *****X may look extremely shiny but currently the
performance
is too poor for daily use. I expect to see great things from this
extension in the future though.

G Davies wrote:

> <posted & mailed>
>
> Mr Ter wrote:
>> I've tried enabling "Translucency" option under KDE to see what it
is
>> about. Apart from few crashes (which is understable since it's an
>> experimental feature) I've notice very poor performance. Most
things like
>> window redraw and movement of windows took much longer than without

>> translucency. Mu PC has quite an old nVidia 400 MX based card. I
wonder
>> if others tried that option and what they have observed in terms of

>> impact on performance.
>
> I had a similar experience with my Geforce FX5700. A transparent
> borderless aterm running *****X may look extremely shiny but
currently the
> performance
> is too poor for daily use. I expect to see great things from this
> extension in the future though.

Presumably you've already included the
Option "Composite" "Enable"
line to the xorg.conf file to get translucency working.
But that doesn't get the hardware acceleration going - and you need it
or
everything is very slow!
Try adding
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
to the device section of the file.

Good luck

Iain Archibald wrote:
> Presumably you've already included the
> Option "Composite" "Enable"
> line to the xorg.conf file to get translucency working.
> But that doesn't get the hardware acceleration going - and you need
it or
> everything is very slow!
> Try adding
> Option "RenderAccel" "True"
> to the device section of the file.

Already got that there. I should point out that when I say it was too
slow
I don't mean glacially slow but rather just slow enough to stop it
being
enjoyable. It's close, just not quite there though.