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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [suse-kde] SUSE 10.1 KDE and XGL
From:       "Marcel Mourguiart" <mourguiart () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-05-23 20:43:26
Message-ID: 3a22cf80605231343j5d50e599pbcb12f27061ac18a () mail ! gmail ! com
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2006/5/23, Fred A. Miller <fmiller@lightlink.com>:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 3:02 pm, Marcel Mourguiart wrote:
> > Hi, i just installed SUSE 10.1, and wanted to try XGL, which i had
> > tried in SUSE 10.0, but compiz, doesn't work correctly with KDE 3.5.2,
> > i was hoping this was a SUSE 10.0 bug, and was hopefully to be
> > resolved in 10.1
> >
> > Now i see the same problems with KDE in SUSE 10.1:
> > 1. When i minimize a window, this windows just disappear, doesn't go
> > to task bar.
> > 2. The virtual desktop navigator in the task bar is use less.
> >
> > Is there a plan or a work in progress to get XGL complete working with KDE
> > ??
> >
> > pd: Please excuse my bad english.
>
> Marcel, I installed 10.1 from the DVD via SUSE yesterday. Xgl is a GREAT work
> in progress, however, it's NOT ready for "production" use yet.
>
> You have noted one bug, there are many others.....Kpackage, for example,
> renders the ability to minimize or close any window with the "corner" icons
> usless....no icons there any longer. Yast responds strange at times, windows
> don't come to the forefront with a move of the mouse as it should, there IS a
> performance hit with Xgl, the game X2, The Threat won't run, other 3D games
> claim there's no 3D graphics care available but will run anyway, couldn't get
> a Konsole window to show typed chrs...no matter what and no transparent
> Konsole, plus some oddities of windows not resizing, etc. I rewrote my
> scripts so that Xgl and Compiz don't run......waiting till it's solid.

I just do the same thing :)

> The upside, however, is that at least with the new nVidia driver, there is a
> NICE performance gain! I'm using a GeForce FX5300 card with 128MB of RAM - a
> PCI Express 16X. I now really cooks!

Yep, no performance problem here either, i'm using a Geforce 6600GT
and fly like the wing :)

-- 
Marcel Mourguiart

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