XCompmgr maxing CPU

[Sam Spilsbury]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 01.02.11, 19:25 +0800 schrieb Sam Spilsbury:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:04 PM, David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I realise that xcompmgr was only meant to serve as an example but it
>>> is still the best simple comp manager around.
>>>
>>> Is anyone maintaining it?
>>>
>>> Is there a way of debugging what exactly it's getting stuck on when it
>>> maxes CPU? (It doesn't segfault so I'm not sure gdb will help).
>>>
>>> Or perhaps someone has suggestions for another comp manager that does
>>> transparency and shadows? (Tried compmgr and cairo-compmgr and they
>>> don't work). It has to work with fluxbox so compiz is out.
>>
>> YMMV but there is a patch to compiz to make it run without the window
>> manager portion.
>>
>> http://git.compiz.org/~tuxmarkv/zcomp/
>>
>> Just a thought :)
>
> That would be really cool.

Yeah, I had an idea to do something like this where we make the window
management portion of compiz entirely a plugin, so that, for proof of
concept you could run another window manager, but that is difficult
and I don't have time to right now. Patches welcome though :)

>
>
> kind regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann
> --
> developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org
>
>



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Sam Spilsbury