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#1 2011-07-14 06:50:18
- Kjonat
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Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
Only difference I see is one have gui other does not.
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#2 2011-07-14 07:17:27
- hauzer
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Re: Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
There are differences, which, I do not know. Xcompmgr works fine here while cairo compmgr has some bugs.
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#3 2011-07-14 10:15:25
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Re: Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
One can use 3D acceleration of your GPU, the other cannot :-)
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#4 2011-07-14 11:50:52
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Re: Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
Different codebase, different bugs, both kind of sucks.
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#5 2011-07-14 12:49:36
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Re: Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
One can use 3D acceleration of your GPU, the other cannot :-)
Or you can understand this way: One requires you having a GPU with 3D acceleration (Holy crap Is there any one without 3D acceleration capability nowadays? Unfortunately Yes, some AMD 6800 series for example) , and One doesn't.
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#6 2011-07-14 13:00:25
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Re: Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
Different codebase, different bugs, both kind of sucks.
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#7 2011-07-14 14:48:25
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Re: Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
Different codebase, different bugs, both kind of sucks.
Which sucks less?
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#8 2011-07-14 14:57:00
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Re: Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
Mr.Elendig wrote:Different codebase, different bugs, both kind of sucks.
Which sucks less?
The one that works better on your machine.
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#9 2011-07-14 18:12:18
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Re: Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
One can use 3D acceleration of your GPU, the other cannot :-)
which one can use GPU 3D?
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#10 2011-07-14 19:11:57
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Re: Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
diff these two:
- http://cairo-compmgr.tuxfamily.org/
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xcompmgr
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#11 2011-07-14 20:29:41
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Re: Xcompmgr and cairo compmgr, what are the differences?
One can use 3D acceleration of your GPU, the other cannot :-)
Actually, both can. Do you think xrender acceleration is not happening on the 3d engine of your GPU? Do you think your graphic card even still has a 2d engine? 
@Kjonat: xcompmgr uses xrender, cairo-compmgr can use either xrender or opengl. Though last time I tried, cairo-compmgr was buggy as hell, to the point of being unusable. And if you go the xcompmgr route, I'd actually advise to go with dcompmgr from AUR. It's a fork by one of the openbox developers, it has a few additional features and bugfixes.
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