gnome-shell cpu usage during installation

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 18:34 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2013, at 5:17 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Jun 19, 2013, at 3:53 PM, John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >>>> Is there a more definitive way to tell if gnome-shell is or isn't offloading onto the GPU?
> >>> 
> >>> $  glxinfo  |  grep renderer
> >>> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.3, 128 bits)
> >>>   "llvmpipe" is the software CPU (SSE2) renderer
> >>> 
> >>> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD REDWOOD
> >>>   One of the hardware renderers.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Fedora 18:
> >> [root at localhost ~]# glxinfo | grep renderer
> >> Error: unable to open display
> > 
> > 1. You don't have to do it as root
> > 2. X has to be running
> 
> I tried it as liveuser and root, and X is running.

if you run it from a terminal inside the X session it should work, but
if you run it from a VT, you have to do it like this:

DISPLAY=:0 glxinfo | grep render
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