From: Ken H. <ke...@ha...> - 2005-02-28 14:53:51
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Guido Schimmels wrote: >On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:43:25 -0800 >Ken Hayber <ke...@ha...> wrote: > > > >>Guido Schimmels wrote: >> >> >> >>>Did Jonatan's message of doom stop everybody from trying the latest OroboROX? >>> >> really didn't have any need to upgrade since I really never use any WM >>keyboard shortcuts. >>I'll check it out anyway to verify that nothing else is broken for me. >> >> > >There are important bugfixes too, like with maximizing only horizontally or vertically working properly now. >And fullscreen mode didn't work with some apps (Helix-/RealPlayer) > > Never had any problems (don't use fullscreen mode or h/v-maximize) > > > >>>PS: >>>Now that I have the XComposite prerequisites, I'm peaking into the issue a bit, stealing the code from xfwm4 HEAD. >>> >>ust installed xfwm4 to play around a bit. I'd certainly welcome the >>eye-candy. Running 6.8.2 here also. Noticed that with xcompmgr any >>window size change messes up the display (window shade, filer auto >>size). Hope that having this in OroboROX is the solution. >> >> > >How is it with xfwm4? Is it usable? Usable only width NVIDIA's drivers or work other cards/drivers too? >I guess the backing store may work well enough with more cards. Additional eye-candy like shadows, transparency and stuff will depend on proper driver support, I'm afraid. > > > I have an old ATI Radeon 7500 pci card wth a P3-1.3Ghz. Both xcompmgr and xfwm4 support shadows with noticeable slowdown, but I could live with it. I'm pretty sure it is just software rendering here. I enabled RENDER acceleration but saw no difference. The only real difference here is that xfwm4 has nicer looking shadows and no artifacts when the screen resizes. Transparency is far too slow to be useable. |