Re: Cumulative problem?
Bud Rogers <[email protected]>
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On Tuesday 17 February 2009 07:22:11 Anne Wilson wrote: > I mentioned yesterday that I had changed the Desktop Effects backend from > OpenGL to XRender. The improvement was immediate, and startling. I still > want another day or two to be absolutely certain, but it looks as though > most of the performance problems have gone. KMail doesn't take those long > pauses any more. X and kwin still top the list of cpu users, but they now > take 10-12% cpu between them. > > I know that other people may have quite different factors, but in the light > of my experience this is something that is definitely worth checking out. I briefly switched to XRender yesterday. My desktop and the open System Settings window rendered OK AFAICT, but the cursor rendered as a pixelated, flickering square. Not really usable, obviously. I didn't spend much time with it, as it was pretty hard to do anything with the mouse. Has anyone else seen this? -- Bud Rogers [email protected] _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users