Am Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:32:54 +0800 schrieb Alan Trick: > Quite possibly, although to be fair, most if this isn't X's fault - > Nvidia and ATI have been pretty bad about supplying decent drivers for > linux, so most sytems are running without and hardware accelleration. > Here's a good look at it. > > http://dri.freedesktop.org/~jonsmirl/graphics.html > > X does have support for dropshadows and transparency and such through > it's Composite extention, however without hardware acceleration > dropshadows are a bit slugish and transparency is completely unusable.
Very great in informative site. It helps me much to understand some problems. Some time ago I used DirectFB and XDirectFB. I was impressed by its speed, shadow and real transparent windows. If I compare the window display times of XDirectFB to plain X is feels extrem fast. But the problem is that there's no hardware OpenGL for Nvidia and I need it. :-( If I change my virtual/multible desktops on "normal" X with E16 I never understand why windows need so many time to display. For example if I change to the window where Firefox is I'm able to see first a the window frame filled with the desktop background for a very small moment and then the window content is displayed. It's hard to see that my Nvidia FX 5200 has so much 3D-Power, but is so slow for my desktop. And if I use one of this huge Gtk+ pixmap themes it's going to be very slow if I change desktops. On his site he wrote that XDirectFB, OS X and others use rootless X. For me it sounds this is better. Why doesn't x.org also use a rootless X server? regards Andreas ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
