KWin slowness (was Re: Release schedule clarifications)

[Andreas Pakulat]

On Montag, 29. Oktober 2007, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On po 29. října 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On Montag, 29. Oktober 2007, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > > On Thursday 25 of October 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > btw, right now kwin is unusable for me. it absolutely kills the
> > > > performance of my kde4 session. i'm currently using xfwm4 and
> > > > the difference is instant.
> > >
> > >  Er, you can turn compositing off, you know?
> >
> > Doesn't make much of a difference for me, xfwm4 is still much
> > faster than kwin.
>
>  Ok, _what_ is so slow then? I don't see any difference to KWin from
> KDE3, nor I'm aware of any in the code, except for the Qt3->Qt4
> change.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific at the moment, because I can't start 
a kde4 desktop using kwin at all. As soon as the desktop is up and 
running I get tons of dr.konqi crash dialogs from knotify4 and I can't 
find a way to stop that currently. No such problems with xfwm4....

Purely from memory I think the most "annoying" thing was a hickup or two 
when starting to move a window around. That is from the first movement 
of the mouse until the window follows it there's a delay of something 
like 1-3 seconds.

Andreas

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