i use xgl and a damn x1600 without dri in xgl session..just in xorg with propietary driver(fglrx)
Without transparence cube effect ram is 260-70MB and cpu between 0 and 2%..
with trans cube,xgl reach 70% of cpu consumption ..
with "acquamarine" theme(i use crystal on kwin) over 90%!!...because another tranparence is added
I run Kubuntu 6.10 with KDE 3.5.5 and the latest Beryl snapshot (v.0.1.3) on my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop.
1700 Mhz Centrino, 512 MB RAM, 256 MB Ati Radeon 9600 (ati drivers). I use Aiglx of course.
The CPU load with cube transperacy is at about 30 percent during the animation and at about 10 percent the rest of the time.
To use cube transperacy you'll need a recent beryl version (- look here http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/dists/edgy/beryl-svn/ )
Peace ;)
All very cute, but the sooner the bloom is off the rose and people realize stuff like this is just a gimmick and has no useful purpose on a computing platform the better.
The utter waste of resources would be bad enough. 30% of your cpu power gone, poof. But the fact that you can't get any real work done or even have a good game experience because of the distraction simply adds insult to injury.
Color me unimpressed.
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i really want beryl, but all their downloads are gone, because their server crashed, so i can't get it anywhere on the internet..ugh i'm so mad.
I noticed that the back of your windows show their content inside the cube, mine are plain black... how did you achieved that?
i use xgl and a damn x1600 without dri in xgl session..just in xorg with propietary driver(fglrx) Without transparence cube effect ram is 260-70MB and cpu between 0 and 2%.. with trans cube,xgl reach 70% of cpu consumption .. with "acquamarine" theme(i use crystal on kwin) over 90%!!...because another tranparence is added
I run Kubuntu 6.10 with KDE 3.5.5 and the latest Beryl snapshot (v.0.1.3) on my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop. 1700 Mhz Centrino, 512 MB RAM, 256 MB Ati Radeon 9600 (ati drivers). I use Aiglx of course. The CPU load with cube transperacy is at about 30 percent during the animation and at about 10 percent the rest of the time. To use cube transperacy you'll need a recent beryl version (- look here http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/dists/edgy/beryl-svn/ ) Peace ;)
TRANSPARENCY of course. X-D
All very cute, but the sooner the bloom is off the rose and people realize stuff like this is just a gimmick and has no useful purpose on a computing platform the better. The utter waste of resources would be bad enough. 30% of your cpu power gone, poof. But the fact that you can't get any real work done or even have a good game experience because of the distraction simply adds insult to injury. Color me unimpressed.
beryl svn 1.0.3 tooks 70% cpu when using transparent cube..do u?..:(
how do you make the cube transparent like that?? Thanks! :D