Re: Windows
treah blade <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.window-managers.icewm.user |
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On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:02:43 -0500 Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:03:45 -0500 > Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:11:08 -0700 > > treah blade <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:13:14 -0500 > > > Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I love IceWM, BUT I find dragging windows around the screen is like > > > > watching paint dry. Perhaps it's my > > > > oboard video (Intel 865) that's slow. > > > > > > Quote: Perhaps it's my oboard video (Intel 865). > > > > > > No there must be something else wrong here. I have never had slowdown with moving around windows when I have 2d acceleration enabled. I would check to make sure your drivers are loaded correctly. > > > > > > > > Yes, I am inclined to agree now. My Ubuntu Maverick partition does > > NOT suffer this problem. IceWm there runs quickly and smoothly, even > > moving and resizing windows. > > There must be a major problem with Xwindows on my Debian Testing > > partition, but I am at a loss to figure out the problem. I cannot even > > remember when it started acting this way. I will have to look into > > how X is configured...maybe it's loading the wrong driver ?? > > > > I have since discovered it is an Intel/Xwindow problem. DRI is not > being enabled on my machine because the Shadow buffer is on in X. > The solution is to disable the shadow buffer, and so DRI will get > enabled. That however means the GPU is more susceptible to lockups, > which I have experienced in the past. > Strange that Ubuntu Maverick does not suffer from this problem > Maybe time to guy a good Linux-supported video card!! > > Thanks to all who had suggestions > > > -- > Cheers > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! > Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by > optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the > Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > IceWM-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icewm-user ehh I have a intel card on my netbook and dont have any issues with lockups. Of course im using kdm and gem. Thats possibly what your ubuntu distro is doing, using kdm and gem. -- treah blade <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev