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Seeking Enlightenment (The H)Seeking Enlightenment (The H)Posted Nov 2, 2012 3:47 UTC (Fri) by Sho (subscriber, #8956)Parent article: Seeking Enlightenment (The H)
> E17 will fall back to software compositing automatically if OpenGL acceleration doesn't work. It is that good.
Just for the record, we do that in KDE as well (I can't comment on how well-optimized KWin's XRender code path is in comparison to what E17 is doing, but it's under active development and has seen improvements in nearly every release).
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Seeking Enlightenment (The H) Posted Nov 2, 2012 16:10 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
I've tried kwin's XRender mode a few times and found it to be essentially useless because it's too slow. But I can't tell which part of the graphics stack is to blame here: the crappy Radeon HD 4200 IGP, the open source radeon driver, kwin or something else.
Seeking Enlightenment (The H) Posted Nov 2, 2012 16:23 UTC (Fri) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
I've only ever used when using KDE in a virtual machine, be it parallels, virtualbox or vmware: in all those cases, the xrender backend worked pretty well.
Seeking Enlightenment (The H) Posted Nov 2, 2012 16:26 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
Did you use any of the animations, such as the minimization effect? Because on my machine, those were always jerky and unpleasant.
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