On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:25, Mike Williams wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:24, Sami Samhuri wrote: > > You will most likely have problems with transparency since it is still a > > new extension and is _not_ stable, yet. You may experience lock ups, but > > the worst effects for me are mplayer troubles (-vo x11 won't let me go > > full screen, boo) and weird drawing of my panel sometimes. (resizing > > usually brings out that effect) > > Biggest problems I have (in KDE3.4) is the huge amount of memory X comsumes > (512MB and 300 odd of swap after a few days is possible), wierd window > resizing errors (windows, and some widgets, aren't redrawn properly), on > occasion *all* windows can become transparent (including the window in > focus), and mplayer not working right (but -vo x11 just fixed that).
For me, the problems were wrong opacity selection, lack of redrawing sometimes, broken window-shade mode, and frequent X server crashes, killing all clients. I have since turned it back off.
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