On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 16:13 -0400, jordan wrote: > > By "cairo's", do you mean http://cairo-compmgr.tuxfamily.org/ ? > > yes, indeedy. > > > Ssome simple hardware information would help: if you are using a proprietary > > driver like nvidia's, performance is slow, as was compiz was at first. > > nvidia eventually fixed their driver for compiz, and now it's blazing fast. > > Similarly, I've heard that the latest beta version of nvidia's proprietary > > driver supports gnome-shell much better. > > Nvidia 9400GT (using Latest driver 270.41)
> Nvidia 9800GT (using 270.41) The proprietary driver is almost certainly the problem here. If you try a recent Fedora live image you could see if it runs better with nouveau, it almost certainly will. (I have a 9400 GT in this system, and Shell performance is very good). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
