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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    [gentoo-desktop]  Re: SuperKaramba
From:       "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date:       2006-05-30 10:00:22
Message-ID: e5h53m$5i8$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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~`IrRuPtIoN`~ <lapator@gmail.com> posted 447BB94E.9030304@gmail.com,
excerpted below, on  Tue, 30 May 2006 03:17:34 +0000:

> Is it possible to make superkaramba real trasperent??
> ex: to see back of a theme , a desktop icons and be able to click it??
> cause i have a lot of desktop icons and i can't use 2 or 3 superkaramba
> themes.

I've not used superkaramba, but given that it's possible with any window
if you are using xorg's composite (extremely unstable and experimental in
xorg 6.8, better in 6.9 and modular xorg 7.0 but still very resource
hogging, MUCH MUCH better in 7.1 if you opt to use EXA in place of the
older XAA, and have a window manager like kwin that handles composite --
virtually no drag on CPU performance at all with xorg 7.1), it will
certainly be possible with superkaramba as well.

Take a look at the screenshots I posted at
http://members.cox.net/pu61ic.1inux.dunc4n/
if you wish to get an idea of what it looks like here, on a dual 1600x1200
monitor setup w/ a Radeon 92xx series dual monitor out card running the
native/libre xorg ati/radeon driver. 

That was KDE 3.5.1 and xorg 7.0.  See up in the top left corner how it's
chewing 100% cycles on one CPU of the dual Opteron I run?  7.1 doesn't do
that any more.  It runs ~10% utilization on one CPU instead of 100%, with
more stuff turned on.  Yeah, I'm running the hard masked xorg 7.1
modular ebuilds, compiled with the then still hard masked gcc-4.1.0. (4.1.1
is now ~arch.)

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