From kwin Mon Oct 15 14:45:03 2007 From: "Jos Poortvliet" Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:45:03 +0000 To: kwin Subject: Re: performance with animations Message-Id: <5c77e14b0710150745o1ea7ce7bxd11335f2e1d47871 () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kwin&m=119245954626590 On 10/15/07, Lubos Lunak wrote: > On Friday 12 of October 2007, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > 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? > > I suppose it's quite new, or maybe even SUSE-specific. Hmmmm... Well, if you can make sure KWin uses this library if possible, that would be cool, right? And I can hope the problem is solved as soon as I can get my hands on it... > -- > 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