On Don, 2003-01-23 at 00:31, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:07:06PM +0100, Michel D�nzer wrote: > > On Mit, 2003-01-22 at 09:25, Sean Proctor wrote: > > > > > things are *much* slower for me than they were a few days ago. I think it > > > was either the upgrade to gtk 2.2 or perhaps a metacity upgrade. when I > > > drag around a box, it moves very slow, and xfree86 starts using a large > > > portion of my processor (60 - 70%, metacity at around 10 - 15%, > > > gnome-term > > > (the app I'm moving around) at 10%, xterm (the non-gtk app in the > > > background, > > > using a gtk app like nautilus or freecell seemed to make things worse > > > (around 10% or so)) at around 3%. > > > > I suggest trying a different metacity version, 2.4.13 is very bad in my > > experience. I downgraded to 2.4.8-4 for now. > > 2.4.13 has a bug that makes window move/resize lag, try 2.4.21. (Or > 2.4.8, or latest CVS)
Glad to know it's fixed again in later versions. > > As for GTK, I also got the impression that 2.2 is slightly slower > > sometimes, I think in part due to better layout (e.g. the tasklist group > > menu is never partly offscreen now). > > The only change that might affect GTK 2.0 vs. 2.2 speed very much is > moving from Xft1/core-X-fonts to Xft2. This should make things faster > on proper X drivers, Indeed, Xft font rendering seems to be faster now, which is great. > but some of them have buggy RENDER and such, apparently. I'm only aware of the proprietary nvidia drivers being broken to cause slowness; mga is the only driver with RENDER acceleration that comes with XFree86, all others use the same software rendering code (which is stunningly fast IMHO). -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
