On Oct 6, 2015 1:08 PM, "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Am 06.10.2015 um 07:47 schrieb Mustafa Muhammad:
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>> I think Plasma 5 uses OpenGL (hardware accelerated) shell, this is why
>> display drivers have much more effect on it's stability (compared to KDE4)
>> For your laptop, if you have hybrid graphics, probably you can disable
>> the external GPU from the BIOS, this will give you better experience.
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> and how does that explain that i had KDE4 desktop effects also configured on my IvyBridge/SandyBridge machines to use OpenGL and never saw effects like new windows sometimes appear first as a black rectangle until the window finally got displayed?
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I don't know the details, I might be wrong but probably the effects thing is different, they said "Fully Hardware-Accelerated Graphics Stack" in Plasma 5 announcement.
Mustafa
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