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karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

[SOLVED] really bad 2D screen redraws, etc. what's going on?

[EDIT- SOLVED] -- all i had to do was enable a desktop wallpaper.  apparently it seems that gnome without a wallpaper renders the winodws and such much differently, making it very slow.   well it's solved, maybe they can fix that

i just did a fresh install of the system with standard xorg, gnome, gnome extra, and the nvidia driver-  but the 2D desktop performance is unusable.  i'm using all the old .conf files from the last system  even, and the log files don't show anything odd, other than saying that the nvidia and glx modules were built for 4. something is that wrong?  glxgears is  about 2000fps.  any ideas??

thanks.
karsten

karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: [SOLVED] really bad 2D screen redraws, etc. what's going on?

no one has any ideas? its completely slow minimizing a window /moving it around etc.

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: [SOLVED] really bad 2D screen redraws, etc. what's going on?

Must be something wrong because i just installed a fresh xorg/gnome/nvidia and i'v never seen such a snappy gnome before. Must be the new gtk/cairo or something. Crazy responsive...

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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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Re: [SOLVED] really bad 2D screen redraws, etc. what's going on?

there was some other stuff about slow window dragging & browsing around the forum a while back: maybe it's the same problem.

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ro0x

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 79

Re: [SOLVED] really bad 2D screen redraws, etc. what's going on?

compile cairo with --enable-glitz (if you have glx) flag and try

pelle.k

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: [SOLVED] really bad 2D screen redraws, etc. what's going on?

So glx can speed up cairo, but it's not enabled by default? What other applications can i do the same with?

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ro0x

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 79

Re: [SOLVED] really bad 2D screen redraws, etc. what's going on?

http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcv … cvs-markup
Yeah... cairo has been compiled with the default flags, but glitz can speed up cairo
and gtk rendering,

karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: [SOLVED] really bad 2D screen redraws, etc. what's going on?

thanks i will try that   BTW i figured out the cause of the massive slowness-- i had no desktop wallpaper enabled.  all you have to do is select one and bam its all fast again.  must be a bug or something.   thx

http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcv … cvs-markup
Yeah... cairo has been compiled with the default flags, but glitz can speed up cairo
and gtk rendering,

Martyr

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From: Out there

Registered: 2006-10-04

Posts: 103

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Re: [SOLVED] really bad 2D screen redraws, etc. what's going on?

http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcv … cvs-markup
Yeah... cairo has been compiled with the default flags, but glitz can speed up cairo
and gtk rendering,

Kiba-dock seems to profit from this, or so I hear. How can I modify the pkgbuild in order to enable glitz?

NEVERMIND:   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-glitz

Last edited by Martyr (2007-05-09 21:09:06)