Public bug reported: Recent experiment in upstream LTSP showed a significant drop of bandwidth usage and increase in performance when using compositing.
The bandwidth benefit of this change may be of as much as 50%, so very significant for LTSP users on crowded application servers. Sadly compiz doesn't always work but xcompmgr in our tests always did. As such, we'd like xcompmgr promoted to main so that it can be used by the next bugfix release of LTSP. The package will end up on ubuntu alternate and edubuntu but it only weights 24K so I doubt it'll be a big problem. LTSP would only use "xcompmgr -a" so not any of the fancy shadowing code. I tried to reproduce each of the bugs at: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xcompmgr/+bugs And couldn't see any of these in the target environment. Same thing with the bugs at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=xcompmgr I tried moving windows around quite a lot, drag&drop, resize, minimize/maximize, locking the screen, all without a single glitch in our target environment. The package wasn't updated in the past 2 years, however it's I think feature-complete and simple enough to be pretty much risk free. ** Affects: xcompmgr (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - [MIR] Please promote xcompmgr to main for LTSP + [FFe][MIR] Please promote xcompmgr to main for LTSP -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xcompmgr in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/967320 Title: [FFe][MIR] Please promote xcompmgr to main for LTSP To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xcompmgr/+bug/967320/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
