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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: toadlife on 30 April 2005, 09:32

Title: Anyone use the translucency effects with KDE 3.4?
Post by: toadlife on 30 April 2005, 09:32

I tried them out, and they looked pretty nice, but they were HORRIBLY slow on my PC. I did some googling and found out about the   Option "RenderAccel" "true" setting. I tried that and it seemed to speed things up quite a bit, but myt X-Server constantly crashed. I disabled the effects - but left the RenderAccel setting on as it seems to make my desktop more responsive.

Anyone here using these effects and not experiencing crashes or slowness?

Title: Re: Anyone use the translucency effects with KDE 3.4?
Post by: Orethrius on 1 May 2005, 02:56

Alpha-channel blending - pretty cool, but it's really just a waste of my time.  I don't need extra eye-candy to tell me that Fluxbox does what I need it to do.  If you're looking for speed and efficiency, screw KDE.  :cool:

Title: Re: Anyone use the translucency effects with KDE 3.4?
Post by: toadlife on 1 May 2005, 03:06

Quote from: Orethrius

Alpha-channel blending - pretty cool, but it's really just a waste of my time. I don't need extra eye-candy to tell me that Fluxbox does what I need it to do. If you're looking for speed and efficiency, screw KDE. :cool:

Who said I was looking for speed an efficiency? If i want that, I won't install X at all. ;)

Title: Re: Anyone use the translucency effects with KDE 3.4?
Post by: WMD on 1 May 2005, 03:30

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=111285866426210&w=2

Title: Re: Anyone use the translucency effects with KDE 3.4?
Post by: toadlife on 1 May 2005, 08:26

I saw that bug when Googling. I enabled renderaccel but, I havn't suffered from any problems. The problems start when I enable translucency effects AND renderaccel together.

Title: Re: Anyone use the translucency effects with KDE 3.4?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 1 May 2005, 15:47

When I use knoppix KDE uses this effect and it isn't too slow, but I normallly use Xfce so I don't care anyway. :p