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Subject:    =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_[openbox]_expos=C3=A9,_compositing?=
From:       danakj () orodu ! net (Dana Jansens)
Date:       2007-06-13 12:36:01
Message-ID: b3502dfb0706130536y62fe68fbi55ea77cdcd4c25da () mail ! gmail ! com
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What version of xcompmgr?

Ubuntu provides xcompmgr v1.1.2, which is built from their git
repository, and is miles ahead of the released version. I don't know
why they haven't made any releases.  It probably fixes all the things
you are talking about.


On 6/13/07, hungerburg <dub at lazy.shacknet.nu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:05:15AM +0100, Hanni Ali wrote:
> > Just to confirm it is a feature of Beryl, and I used Skippy for a bit with
> > openbox, didn't find it massively useful, although it was better in Beryl.
> >
>
> skippy does not require xcompmgr: the Render/Composite version.
> yet with skippy, there is delay of more than a second, before
> windows arrange - xcompmgr does not help that.
>
> running xcompmgr occasionally loads the xserver so its using 90
> percent cpu, sometimes killing xcmpmgr cures that, sometimes I
> had to restart the session.
>
> also xcompmgr slows eg. desktop hopping on a grafics card that
> can do sauerbraten with all FX on at 200fps.
>
> is there a standalone compositing manager that gets actively
> developped?
>
> Peter
>
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