Re: gnome-session proposal

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:28 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> 2008/6/26 Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 26.06.2008, 15:28 +0100 schrieb Alexander Jones:
> >> Agreed, we need to move towards expecting Composited as default and
> >> Direct as a niche case, but this was just an example. :)
> > Guess Metacity's compositor needs to become much faster first.
> > Activating its compositor introduces such a lag, that is isn't
> > fun anymore.
> 
> That involves either:
> 
> * replacing the current compositor with a GL-based one; or

Please don't. I really want compositing but I can't use a GL-based one
on all systems, as for example even with some recent Intel desktop
mainboards you can't have DRI with a screen area larger than 2048x2048,
which is easily reached with two monitors.

Metacity's compositor works pretty well here except for slow workspace
switching.

Jürg