On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:43:02AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > > FWIW, sometime back, I did some benchmarks with a composite enabled > Metacity - results at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03613.html > Jim had suggested some memory saving tricks at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03647.html
Thanks. I'm going to try out Jim's suggestion: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:38:59 -0700, Jim Gettys wrote: > For composition to not eat memory (a full frame buffer's > worth/activity), the buried windows need to be "unmapped" in X parlance. > When a window is unmapped, X can free the contents of the window even > when composite is running (IIRC). We have gtk.Window.unmap() to play with. The difficult question is how to signal the activities to unmap themselves. I suppose we could follow the pattern currently used to trigger auto-saves. Erik _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
