[compiz] [PATCH] Use-Copy for Compiz - Non-Texture-From-Pixmaps rendering

Treviño trevi55 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 09:02:33 PDT 2007


Some weeks ago one of my friends asked me to port the "use-copy"
(non-tfp) beryl's feature to Compiz since he wasn't able to run compiz
(fusion) smoothly in his nvidia card with turbocache (these cards works
well only using Xgl, otherwise they are affected by the [in]famous
"Black Window Bug". That's obiouvsly an error that nVidia should fix,
but in the latest months nothing has changed!); then Vladimir posted in
this list asking the use-copy feature for using compiz in fglrx drivers
too, that's why I passed the latest night in porting the code to Compiz
and... All works well!

You can find the patch at:
 compiz-use-copy-rendering.patch - http://tinyurl.com/35rum3

As in beryl now you'll have an "--use-copy" flag that you could use to
load compiz also if you don't have the texture-from-pixmaps support
 
I've tested this with nvidia and radeon (free drivers) and compiz works
correctly

I've not added an ABIVERSION change in patch, not to update the patch on
each compiz change, however as you'd know it's absolutely needed that
you recompile every plugin after applying this patch.

Let me know how it works for you!
Bye...

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