[Xorg] Solicitation of screen shots of new facilities in action...

Jim Gettys Jim.Gettys at hp.com
Fri Aug 13 19:36:44 PDT 2004


Could you disable Xinerma temporarily on your system and
see if things behave better?  As Eric pointed out, we don't
have the hooks to "do the right thing" decently with multiscreen
systems.
                             - Jim

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 22:27, Ryan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Although the original screen shot is "legit" not doctored in any way, I
> labeled it "deceptively good" because when running xcompmgr xorg is
> utterly useless.  :-)  Widgets, window contents, text, etc, don't draw
> correctly, performance is... well the word "performance" isn't really
> applicable.
> 
> No offense meant to those busting their backs here, you rawk, I just
> didn't want to leave a bunch of people heart-broken asking; "why doesn't
> my x look like his x".
> 
> To further elucidate I'm running;
> 
> P4 2.4ghz
> ati radeon 9000 (mobile) 64mb
> 648mb system ram
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7.99.2 (Friday 13th cvs)
> 
> Btw, thanks to all the developers.
> 
> -ry
> 
> On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 00:25 +0200, Ronny V. Vindenes wrote:
> > fre, 13,.08.2004 kl. 15.26 -0400, skrev Jim Gettys: 
> > > No, it shouldn't be dog slow.
> > 
> > I see the same thing here with athlon64 3200+ and ati 9000, but ONLY
> > with some gtk themes. If I use plain themes like Simple, it's sluggish
> > but tolerable, however if I use themes like my own Glacier it's
> > completely unusable with more than one or two windows and there's
> > rendering errors all over the place (i.e. widgets and/or whole windows
> > only draw the background color or pixmap).
> > 
> 
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