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| author | Olivier Fourdan <fourdan@xfce.org> | 2017-05-15 09:00:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Olivier Fourdan <fourdan@xfce.org> | 2017-05-15 09:09:30 +0200 |
| commit | 940cfef1c7b5828b951b392b75baecc1638619be (patch) | |
| tree | e394b8ba9b85d0a9c0f73d09649deca145e14fcf /COMPOSITOR | |
| parent | 7115d1b4f4021043bb59e6acafa105cb77fe5b9d (diff) | |
| download | xfwm4-940cfef1c7b5828b951b392b75baecc1638619be.tar.gz | |
compositor: Remove present env var
Prefer Present over GLX if both are available, and remove the
environment variable "XFWM4_USE_PRESENT".
Eventually, we'd rather use a command line option instead (TODO).
Diffstat (limited to 'COMPOSITOR')
| -rw-r--r-- | COMPOSITOR | 18 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/COMPOSITOR b/COMPOSITOR index 381afdc44..6e48a9eee 100644 --- a/COMPOSITOR +++ b/COMPOSITOR @@ -40,13 +40,13 @@ The following tips apply to the X.org Xserver X11R6.8.x Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection - + - Save the configuration file and restart the Xserver. 3) Troubleshooting ------------------ -The composite extensions in X.org look fairly new and there are several problems +The composite extensions in X.org look fairly new and there are several problems that may arise when using the compositing manager in xfwm4: - Windows aren't correctly refreshed @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ are a few hints that could help categorizing the problem: ie, when running "xfwm4 --compositor=off; xcompmgr -c" - Does it show with the Xserver embedded compositor manager? ie, when running "xfwm4 --compositor=auto" - + If the problem with xcompmgr and/or with the Xserver compositor, then there is a good chance that the problem is not with xfwm4... @@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ card, feel free to submit your own tips. The XRender extension can be very CPU consuming. The NVidia binary closed source drivers are able to perform the rendering in hardware. -If you have an NVidia video card and the NVidia binary closed source drivers, -you can enable the XRender in hardwareby adding the following option to your +If you have an NVidia video card and the NVidia binary closed source drivers, +you can enable the XRender in hardwareby adding the following option to your xorg.conf file: Option "RenderAccel" "true" @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ EndSection 4.2) EXA ~~~~~~~~ -On some card, you may want to try the EXA acceleration by adding +On some card, you may want to try the EXA acceleration by adding Option "AccelMethod" "exa" @@ -128,9 +128,5 @@ Support for those features can be checked using "xfwm4 --version": - Epoxy support: Yes ... -If both VSYNC methods are available, xfwm4 will prefer OpenGL. To force the -use of the present extension, set the environment variable XFWM4_USE_PRESENT -prior to run xfwm4, e.g.: - - $ XFWM4_USE_PRESENT=1 xfwm4 --replace & +If both VSYNC methods are available, xfwm4 will prefer Present over OpenGL. |