From kwin Fri Oct 12 18:24:19 2007 From: "Jos Poortvliet" Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:24:19 +0000 To: kwin Subject: Re: performance with animations Message-Id: <5c77e14b0710121124v53a2d2c2m2a9937a36e3c13e () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kwin&m=119221350024762 On 10/12/07, Lubos Lunak wrote: > On Wednesday 10 of October 2007, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > On 10/10/07, Lubos Lunak wrote: > > > On Monday 08 of October 2007, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > > > I've been using Kwin with compositing for some time under 3.5, and it > > > > performs great on my Geforce 6600. Today, I was working on screenshots > > > > for 4.0 beta apps, and I tried the animations I blogged about > > > > previously ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FuB4YZfC4s ). They don't > > > > really go smooth at all with compositing on... Try moving one of the > > > > dockers from dolphin - the animation is smooth without compositing, > > > > but with, it's pretty bad. > > > > > > > > Is this due to a bug, or some fundamental limitation? I hope it can be > > > > fixed, of course, if not - all Qt4 apps have all kinds of animations > > > > (try removing toolbars, or when the buttons don't fit on it, click the > > > > 'more' button on the right and watch the remaining one appear - > > > > animated). This is gonna hurt... > > > > > > I have no idea, I haven't yet got as far as finetuning performance. Does > > > it work reasonably with Compiz? > > > > Compiz doesn't run at all here, dunno, must be some bug somewhere and > > I don't really care... Sorry. > > Well, then there's nothing to compare KWin to. But I've found one way to make > the Dolphin animations smooth: > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libIndirect.so.1 kwin --replace > > KWin using this library seems to be about as smooth as Compiz when using it > (which it does by default), the same way both are quite jumpy when they don't > use it (which means removing the file when trying with Compiz). > > This is with nvidia on openSUSE10.3 - can somebody try with some other setup? Annoyingly, I can't find that library... where is it from? > -- > Lubos Lunak > KDE developer > -------------------------------------------------------------- > SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org > Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 > 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 > Czech Republic http//www.suse.cz > _______________________________________________ > Kwin mailing list > Kwin@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kwin > _______________________________________________ Kwin mailing list Kwin@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kwin