On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:24:35 +0800 P Purkayastha <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Marc MERLIN <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So I was thinking about a "minimal eye candy mode", like I believe > > e17 had early on when you set it up. > > Isn't there a way to disable at least some of the work it does to > > make things look good? > > For instance, is it possible to run the main event loop less often? > > Disable all things that move if not needed like the 'window is not > > responding spinning stuff' which did improve my battery after I > > turned it off? > > You can reduce/disable some of the composite effects. That could help > reduce some of the cpu/battery usage. In the Composite settings, just > check either or both > > "Enable fast composite effects" > "Disable composite effects" > > restart e, and see if it helps. It disables some animations, but it > won't disable the full composited desktop. It probably won't help much > in the case of the spinning wheel. > > What I have definitely noticed is that it is a ***spinning wheel*** > that takes up a lot of cpu. Other potential events that should cause > frequent refreshes of the screen, such as a movie playing or a > progress bar does not take so much cpu. The desktop transitions, > window animations, etc all remain smooth only in the case it is not a > spinning wheel. Depending on how things are setup, and the capabilities of your hardware, playing videos might be hardware accelerated. So likely those wont take much CPU. That wont apply to progress bars and the other stuff though. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
