On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mark Bidewell <mark.bidewell at alumni.clemson.edu> wrote: > I was playing around with KDE 4.2 compositing settings and I tried > switching from OpenGL to Xrender. It seems as though my system > operates smoother with Xrender than OpenGL. Is there anything I > should be aware of using Xrender instead of OpenGL? On my netbook, OpenGL works great and Xrender crawls -- on my laptop, on the other hand, it's the exact inverse. Both using Intel graphics. It's weird. MEF -- Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universit?t M?nchen and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh