XFCE Terminal resize poor performance

Ray Van Dolson rayvd at bludgeon.org
Tue May 20 07:22:06 PDT 2008


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:42:53AM -0700, David Sharp wrote:
> > Basically, you need to find out why these operations are falling back to
> > ExaCheckComposite instead of being accelerated. A start could be to
> > rebuild the radeon driver with
> >
> > #define RADEON_TRACE_FALL 0
> >
> > changed to 1 in src/radeon_exa.c and record the resulting fallback
> > messages in the log file.
> 
> You are experiencing this bug:
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2818
> related:
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2792
> 
> as a workaround, I set my Terminal launcher to:
> env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 Terminal
> 

Thanks David, Michel.  I'll track those bugs.  Also seeing somewhat
long repaints on virtual desktop switches, so I'll pursue that one
next (seems to be calls to exaOffScreenAlloc)

Ray



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