[Openchrome-users] shredded desktop icons with EXA

Benno Schulenberg bensberg
Sun Feb 11 14:53:11 PST 2007


> Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
> > Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > [But EXA has different problems: it "tears" and "shreds" my
> > > icons when switching virtual desktops.]
>
> > There was a vt switching problem with EXA before, but that was
> > fixed with an Xserver patch that now has gone into Xserver git.
>http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=EXAAcceleration

Have applied the patch, but the result is still the same: all 
desktop icons get shredded.

The effect is sometimes quite spectacular: normally my box comes up 
on desktop 4, with a Konsole and a Ksysguard window open.  When 
then switching to desktop 3 (Ctrl+F3), some 50 horizontal black 
lines quickly shred the entire view to bits and then the other 
desktop appears.  The background is fine, but the icons remain 
"shredded" (see attached screen snippets), even if I move them. 
When highligting them they are okay, but when the highlight is 
removed they are bad again.

This shredding happens in about half a second, and it happens only 
upon the first desktop switch.  After that dekstop switching is 
quicker, but still somewhat slower than with XAA: EXA visibly 
swipes from left to right, whereas with XAA I can't even see how 
it's done so quick it is -- probably from left to right too, but in 
big blocks.

Benno
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