On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:14 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > 2008/5/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 gmail com>: > > I noticed that (on kde desktop), when the cursor is placed on the panel > > icon, and a balloon pops up showing info on the app, xorg sucks a steady > > cpu close to 100%. > > It's a shaped window, which will add overhead to rendering both of the > window itself and of the stuff underneath due to having to clip to > regions (LOTS of regions, since the corners are curved :o)). Sure, but that's an explanation for why rendering it once would take a lot of CPU, not for why it takes that much CPU continuously. - ajax
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