Dmitry Rashkeev wrote:
Hi,
I've upgraded to the latest e16.8 from CVS, and noticed much to my joy a
composite manager has been integrated into enlightenment. I activated
this baby hoping to try out some of the latest and greatest features.
While the manager was quite good, and in most cases performed better
than what my experience with xcompmgr and xfce, it left a series of
annoying artifacts on the desktop that completely cancelled any
eye-candy value that the manager had. Also, the switching desktops animation
no longer works properly; a
desktop switch results in similar artifacts on the screen. Restarting
enlightenment doesn't help at all. To see what I'm talking about,
please go to
http://www.physics.unc.edu/~rashkeev/gkrellShoot_07-20-05_130844.jpg
Bad. I haven't seen or heard of this before, so I suspect it is a
problem with your X11 server/driver.
This is the result of me dragging the composite settings window around
on the screen. As you can see, very annoying. This didn't happen in any other
window manager, but strangely enough did occur when running xcompmgr on
enlightenment. This makes me thing this has something to do with the way e
draws the desktop that is fundamentally incompatible with the composite
extention.
For various reasons e16 doesn't play well with xcompmgr. You are not
running xcompmgr while enabling e16.8 composite support, right?
Has anyone else had this problem? Am I missing something very clear, or
is the composite manager broken? I could probably fix parts of this
myself but wanted to make sure there was no other solution out there. I
haven't seen anyone having the same problem on any mailing lists...
I'm using X.org 6.8.2 from gentoo. My computer is an IBM-R40 laptop
(P4M-2.0GHz, 256M ram, 16M Radeon 7500M graphics card).
To my knowledge e16.8 with composite enabled, including shadows and
animations, works fairly well with the nvidia drivers.
I also have it running on a 266 MHz PII with a 4MB ATI 3D Rage Pro. Not
fast :), but not broken either.
/Kim
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