[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-07-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/29/2011 02:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this release. I found yet another, uhm, let's say tweak that results in a speed-up. /usr/bin/startkde (this script is used also for KDM logins) sets

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/30/2011 06:28 AM, Duncan wrote: Nikos Chantziaras posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:22:36 +0300 as excerpted: (I'm using a Radeon HD4870 with the open source drivers.) I was able to find a tweak that makes kwin usable again though. I had to create a ~/.drirc file and put this in there:

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-30 Thread Georg C. F. Greve
On Thursday 30 June 2011 12.49:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I keep seeing this s/\/\g stuff around, but I still don't any idea what it means, lol man sed :) -- Georg C. F. Greve gr...@fsfe.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/GeorgGreve http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/ http://identi.ca/greve

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-30 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2011-06-30, Georg C. F. Greve wrote: On Thursday 30 June 2011 12.49:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I keep seeing this s/\/\g stuff around, but I still don't any idea what it means, lol man sed :) What Georg tries to tell you here in a geeky [1] way is that this is a way to

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-30 Thread Georg C. F. Greve
On Thursday 30 June 2011 12.38:02 Kevin Krammer wrote: [1] Having become a CEO means he needs to actively remind people that he's actually a geek and knows stuff So you're saying CEO does not stand for Chief Entertainment Officer? Damn. ;) Best regards, Georg -- Georg C. F. Greve

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-30 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:45:54 +0300 as excerpted: On 06/30/2011 06:28 AM, Duncan wrote: Nikos Chantziaras posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:22:36 +0300 as excerpted: (I'm using a Radeon HD4870 with the open source drivers.) I was able to find a tweak that makes kwin

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-30 Thread Duncan
Kevin Krammer posted on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:38:02 +0200 as excerpted: The s/dri\.conf/drirc/g quoted earlier basically boils down to Search for dri.conf and replace with drirc everwhere it is encountered in the input Yes. And (I can say this since it's myself I'm putting down) to some

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread phanisvara das
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:14:33 +0530, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this release. I remember KDE 4.3 (or maybe 4.2) where kwin was fast and nice. After every release, it would become slower. It

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this release. I remember KDE 4.3 (or maybe 4.2) where kwin was fast and nice. After every release, it would become slower. It reached a negative peak with 4.6. Now with 4.7 RC1,

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/29/2011 03:45 PM, phanisvara das wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:14:33 +0530, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this release. I remember KDE 4.3 (or maybe 4.2) where kwin was fast and nice.

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/29/2011 04:07 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this release. [...] Is it also slow with compositing turned off (Alt-Shift-F12 to toggle)? There are no effects (minimizing, present

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Kim Leyendecker
Am 29.06.2011 15:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: There are no effects (minimizing, present windows, etc) with compositing turned off, so there can be no comparison. Moving windows around is fast and smooth in both cases. It's compositing animations that have become very slow. When I enable

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/29/2011 10:47 PM, Kim Leyendecker wrote: Am 29.06.2011 15:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: There are no effects (minimizing, present windows, etc) with compositing turned off, so there can be no comparison. Moving windows around is fast and smooth in both cases. It's compositing

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread phanisvara das
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:50:34 +0530, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: K:D:F ?? I've never seen that notation before. Is it simply indicating KDE, version 4 (d) dot 6 (f), or something else? Where'd the idea come from? Is it OpenSuSE or your own idea or from elsewhere, and what's the

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:15:54 +0300 as excerpted: On 06/29/2011 03:45 PM, phanisvara das wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:14:33 +0530, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Duncan
phanisvara das posted on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:13:52 +0530 as excerpted: On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:50:34 +0530, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: K:D:F ?? I've never seen that notation before. Is it simply indicating KDE, version 4 (d) dot 6 (f), or something else? Where'd the idea come

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:22:36 +0300 as excerpted: (I'm using a Radeon HD4870 with the open source drivers.) I was able to find a tweak that makes kwin usable again though. I had to create a ~/.drirc file and put this in there: driconf device screen=0