On Mit, 2012-09-12 at 15:29 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2012, 15:24 +0200 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > On Die, 2012-09-11 at 15:07 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2012, 14:55 +0200 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > > > On Die, 2012-09-11 at 14:42 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > > > > > > > > using Debian Sid/unstable with the awesome 3.4.13-1 window manager and > > > > > Evolution 3.4.3-1, htop shows X to constantly use 10 % of the CPU. > > > > > Closing Evolution the usage goes back to more or less 0 %. > > > > > > > > I'm not seeing this. Is there something in your Evolution window(s) that > > > > is constantly repainting, e.g. a spinner in the status bar, a blinking > > > > cursor, ... ? > > > > > > Now that you are mentioning it, in the bottom there is the message > > > »Checking for New Messages« and next to it there is an animation where > > > something goes around a circle. Canceling that removes X’s CPU usage. > > > > That's a GTK+ spinner widget, which uses RENDER trapezoids, which is a > > software rendering fallback with EXA. > > Could that be changed to not us some fallback? Anything could be done ;), but it would require a lot of work to EXA and the drivers, which is unlikely to happen at this point. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
