On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > fedora-kde mailing list > fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde > I realized I jumped the gun on this question. For some reason it takes a reboot for effects changes to fully implement. After a reboot with Xrender enabled things slowed to a crawl and most of the effects wouldn't work. The only improvement was in the performance of OpenGL games. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell
