Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > >and font data loaded from the themes, would add increased lag for handling >exposes for dropshadows, as well as have destroyed a design specifically >targetted to be able to degrade nicely for e18 when i would like to fo >xcomposite support. > > I've been using e17 with Composite and xcompmgr/transset-df-4/xbindkeys and it seems to work pretty well (see the nice instructions for doing this at the Gentoo Wiki). Ironically it's a lot of GTK apps that have the most problems with xcompmgr (Firefox+Flash plug-in will crash, Thunderbird will crash unless you set XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS, occassional corruption when using scrollbar in thunderbird, rdesktop).
E17 will have corruption on the background when starting up and/or changing themes, but moving a window around the desktop to force a repaint will fix it. Transparent windows work fine, the drop shadows created by xcompmgr don't interfere or look out of place with e17's dropshadows... really, it's pretty amazing! Granted, xcompmgr and transparent windows are only usable with proprietary NVIDIA drivers (which I am using), and other people report great success with EXA-enabled drivers and X.Org 6.9/7.0. Mike Russo ReadQ Systems, Inc. (212) 425 3680 x105 Random quote of the last-time-I-ran-bash: It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one day like any other day, only shorter. t -- Samuel Beckett, "Malone Dies" ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
