[compiz] COW and unredirect_fullscreen_windows

[David Reveman]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 18:37 -0500, Douglas Bollinger wrote:
> I'm using Compiz 0.3.2 on Gentoo with the Nvidia 9626 beta drivers.
> 
> First off, I would like to state that Compiz is very, very nice.  The effects
> are very tasteful and enhance the desktop experience instead of being
> distracting.  Compiz itself works great, the animations are smooth and it's
> very nice that it now uses the Metacity themes.
> 
> The only reason I'm not using Compiz full time is that it clobbers the
> framerates of my other 3D apps, aka games.  From what I understand, one way
> around this would be to activate the unredirect_fullscreen_windows option
> which would disable Compiz effects for fullscreen apps and hopefully restore
> the framerate of the games.  Of course, that doesn't work.  From what I read
> in the mailing list archives is that this feature doesn't work with COW, which
> is what the Nvidia drivers use with Compiz.
> 
> I was just curious if anyone knew if this was still going to be fixed.  It's
> been awhile since this bug has been mentioned last on the mailing list.

unredirect_fullscreen_windows, should now work properly when using the
composite overlay window for output.

-David