I´m using Puppy 214X RC-1 and noticed that composite extension is disabled by default, I can enable it adding the following code to xorg.conf:
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Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
When composite extension is enabled I can use transparency effects via xcommpmgr, but I also noticed that using xcompmgr in 214x turns Puppy very slow (it has Xorg 7.0), if I use xcompmgr in dpup or newer Puppys I don´t see any performance degradation using the same test system. I think that composite extension support have been improved in latest Xorg versions.
I searched around and found the following options to speed it up:
For NVIDIA cards, add the Device section in X config file:
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Option "RenderAccel" "true"
For ATI cards:
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Option "backingstore" "true"
and for both cards:
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Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
There are other options available that I tried, anyway if I enable composite and use xcompmgr Puppy 214X runs slow.
I want to know if permanently enable Composite Extension could produce any other problems, using or not using xcompmgr.
Is there any report about Flash Plug-in crashing in Firefox using composite extension?. I don´t have any problem with Firefox in my machine but I found some notes about composite problems with Mozilla. Is that issue solved in latest Puppy+Mozilla versions?.
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2004-A ... 02300.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/14911
Should I enable permanently composite extension for 214X?. I want to keep 214X bug free and keep support for old hardware.
clarf
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