XCompmgr maxing CPU

[Mihai Draghicioiu]

why don't you try debugging xcompmgrand see where the bottleneck is.
maybe try a profiler.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:04 PM, David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> wrote:
> Hi, I am experiencing maxed out CPU usage sometimes when switching
> desktops/applications in fluxbox.
>
> I realise that xcompmgr was only meant to serve as an example but it
> is still the best simple comp manager around.
>
> Is anyone maintaining it?
>
> Is there a way of debugging what exactly it's getting stuck on when it
> maxes CPU? (It doesn't segfault so I'm not sure gdb will help).
>
> Or perhaps someone has suggestions for another comp manager that does
> transparency and shadows? (Tried compmgr and cairo-compmgr and they
> don't work). It has to work with fluxbox so compiz is out.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
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