Bug#374158: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#374158: xfce4: Can't access the "compositing manager" tab

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 23:49 +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Yves-Alexis Perez may or may not have written...

> > You can try to run xfwm4 from a terminal, too. There is an autodetection of
> > RENDER extension speed which is run at xfwm4 start. If it's too slow,
> > composite is disabled. If you want to force compositing, you can start xfwm
> > with: xfwm4 --compositor=on
> 
> Or you can try switching from XAA to EXA. Doing so here lets the speed check
> succeed, allowing the compositor to be enabled automatically:
> 
>   Section "Device"
>   	Identifier	"Radeon 9200"
>   	Driver		"Radeon"
> ...
>   	Option		"AccelMethod" "EXA"
> ...
>   EndSection

Here, even using EXA doesnt work, on radeon 9600. I need to force
--compositor=on and then it's quite slow.
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez