KDE4 effects Xrender vs OpenGL

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mark Bidewell
<mark.bidewell at alumni.clemson.edu> wrote:
> I was playing around with KDE 4.2 compositing settings and I tried
> switching from OpenGL to Xrender.  It seems as though my system
> operates smoother with Xrender than OpenGL.  Is there anything I
> should be aware of using Xrender instead of OpenGL?

On my netbook, OpenGL works great and Xrender crawls -- on my laptop,
on the other hand, it's the exact inverse. Both using Intel graphics.
It's weird.

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster  --  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh