xorg.conf correction speeds up sex life & gnome 2.8 by 8

huffd · n00b Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 33

It wasn't noticeable before gnome 2.8 but I'd hacked myself into a corner with the old (residual) xfree86 extensions.

If you're system is slow and dying after upgrading to gnome 2.8 check see if you have this entry in your xorg.conf, it's the "Composite" that will affect you worse. I left the comments in mine for future hacking.

#Section "Extensions"
# Option "Composite" "Enable"
# Option "RENDER" "Enable"
#EndSection

Well maybe it won't speed up your sex life but gnome 2.8 is many, many times faster.

Sastraxi · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 258

Of course, this will disable the nifty little shadows and transparency and whatever the new Metacity gives you. Also this only affects xorg 6.8 and up...

(If you still like the shadows, try xcompmgr and transset)
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lucif3r · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject:

Does Metacity have tranparency and shadows. I can't get it enabled. Where do you set it?
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smartdreamer · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 17

For shadows, try

lucif3r · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:36 pm Post subject:

Yeah I know that. Both work horribly poorly. I was just wondering about integrated shadows, etc. available through Metacity. Is this true?
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MaxDamage · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 5:42 pm Post subject:

Any news about native support of xorg shadows and transparencies in gnome/metacity?
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Cazov · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:42 am Post subject:

I noticed that having composite enabled with xorg 6.8.0-r1, -r3 caused sdl apps to run poorly....so you may want to keep that in mind.