On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 23:04, Marek Habersack wrote: > > It's probably not exactly the right list to ask this question, but I'm > starting here since I've heard from slackware and gentoo users that they > have no such problem on their systems. The problem is simple - metacity is > painfully slow at repainting windows (or desktop on workspace switch). I > vaguely remember that the reason for that was that metacity used full > backing store blits using the pixmap library, which must be quite slow, > indeed.
The window manager doesn't repaint the app windows (or the desktop, for that matter), the apps do it themselves. > I tried to switch to sawfish recently, but it doesn't work correctly > with the gnome2's panel so I had to switch back (even though it was > really fast...). It's quite an annoying experience to actually see the > desktop repainting on a fast machine (Athlon 2400+, 1GB RAM, Hercules > Radeon 9000 128MB RAM)... I'm running XFree 4.3.0-0pre1v1 with > xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk, compiled with athlon optimizations. Do the Slackware and Gentoo users you mention have a comparable setup? http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414 might be related, as the radeon driver doesn't accelerate the RENDER extension yet. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
