Maybe this would do what you want: http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus/
cheers, /Patrik On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 12, 2010, at 20:36, Matt Mollison wrote: > > Since I can't find a way to comment on the bug that I opened and was closed > almost immediately > <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2999543&group_id=192583&atid=941981>, > I thought I would post this issue to the Skim users list to see if anyone > else has noticed it and/or has a workaround. Maybe I was wrong to classify > this as a bug (as hofman seems to think), but I didn't know where else to > put it—this didn't seem like a feature request when I originally posted it. > To summarize, I recently bought a new MacBook Pro (released April 2010 with > the i5 and i7 processors; relevant to the following issues is that they > switch between built-in and discrete graphics cards on-the-fly, and noticed > that using the Search PDF function (Option-Command-F) in Skim causes the > more powerful discrete card to become active. Also, the discrete card also > stays active after both closing the search pane and closing the PDF. Having > the discrete card on uses more battery, which is not something that I want > to happen on a laptop when just reading a PDF. > The source of the graphics card switch is any use of Core Animation (CA); in > Skim, CA is used to display the graphical transition to the search results > pane after using the Search PDF option. Other people have noticed the switch > with apps that use CA for small UI features > <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11449395>. It may be a > bug on Apple's end that the more powerful graphics card always gets invoked > when CA is used (I have sent feedback to Apple regarding this), and maybe > they will fix it for cases where the discrete card isn't really needed like > in Skim's case, but maybe they won't. > To get to my point, I don't know much about creating GUIs and using CA in OS > X, but I wonder 1) if it is really necessary for Skim to display the search > pane transition using CA, and 2) if it is possible to make using CA > transitions an option. I'm not being angry here, by the way. If it is > imperative for Skim to use CA for the transition and making CA transitions > optional is not a possibility, that's fine, I just want to know. > Thanks for developing such a great PDF reader/annotater. I hope to keep > using it while running on my laptop's battery! > Best, > Matt > > First of all, if there's a problem, it's completely Apple's, they decide > which hardware to use, especially for CA. Skim does not have to use CA, but > that's not not saying that it shouldn't use it. > Anyway, I will add a hidden preference to switch off animations, you could > try and build Skim from source (see the Wiki for details about building and > about hidden prefs, the relevant key is SKDisableAnimations). > Christiaan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
