Johannes Winkelmann wrote: [snip]
It is unbearably slow on my 1.4 GHz P4 though; with shadows enabled, it takes about 3 seconds for an aterm window to be redrawn at the new position when moving it.
With blackbox 0.70beta2 and bbkeys 0.9.0beta2, the situation is better now: bbkeys works just fine :-). It's still not usable because it's so slow on my machine.
I used the following guide to get started (I'm not on gentoo, so don't worry, it's not gentoo specific): http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=210008&highlight=xorg
Finally a few screenshots (with blackbox 0.70beta2): http://jw.tks6.net/files/shadow.png http://jw.tks6.net/files/translucency.png http://jw.tks6.net/files/menu.png
To summarize, the eye candy just works, bbkeys and bbpager for blackbox 0.65 had some problems with X11R6.8, bbkeys 0.9.0beta2 works fine. And for me, it's too slow to work with, but then, there are far more powerful machines around :-).
Just for some more info if anyone wants it, I just enabled this on my machine using the guide on the forum posting above and while it does "work", it's not very pretty. The shadows and such look great but it messes up the root window so unless you only full-screen apps (or at least always have one full-screen app running) the display becomes very ugly. This may be a configuration issue on my part though. I wasn't able to add the Option "Renderer" "true" line to my X config. When I did X wouldn't start because it was an unknown option.
Also it is noticably slower than running without it, but it's not quite as bad for me as for Johannes. Maybe a second or so delay versus three. I think for me, I'll just use it as I need it rather than all the time. Once in a while I find myself wanting the transparency for always-on-top windows so I'll probably just make some menu item to enable/disable it temporarilly. I'd love to have it working 100% of the time, but oh well, eventually...
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