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Re: Cool
by kwilliam on Friday 18/Jan/2008, @20:42

I have the opposite experience (Compiz was quite smooth, KWin incredibly jerky) but I have faith in the KWin developers that it will improve quickly. They also seem to have a better sense of what "effects" are useful (e.g. the keyboard filtering in Present Windows).

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Re: Cool
by Bobby on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @02:53

Could it be that you have a nVidia card and are having driver issues? I had the same problem with my nVidia care but after applying a so-called Hack (that was mentioned here) and doing a few adjustments in the xorg.conf file the effects are now very smooth.
On the other hand I can't get Compiz-Fusion to run with Xorg on KDE 4.0. It seems to need XGL, which KDE 4.0 seems to be allergic to. I also have problems with Kaffeine when using Compiz-Fusion.

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Re: Cool
by Jorge S. de Lis on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @02:58

Can you point us to the hacks you made? Please :)

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Re: Cool
by Lubos Lunak on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @03:23

KWin release notes for KDE4.0, see the right section : http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes . I don't know if there are any other possible improvements, so I don't know what those few adjustements could be, but I can add more if people tell me them.

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Re: Cool
by Bobby on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @04:02

Written by Marcel Partap in thread The Start of Something Amazing:
(attention: put 'export KWIN_NVIDIA_HACK=1' in your /etc/profile or so if you have an nvidia card, it does make a huge difference!)

Also add this to your xorg.conf file:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

And make sure that you are using the latest nvidia driver.
You should tell us if it worked for you.

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Re: Cool
by Diederik van der Boor on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @04:57

I think the posted referred to this discussion:

http://dot.kde.org/1200050369/1200126492/

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