Beryl options and nvidia

Gérard Milmeister gemi at bluewin.ch
Sat Jan 6 13:20:28 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:14 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:

> 
> If you have problems with beryl, try compiz. The reason being is that compiz
> has better memory management than beryl (technically, beryl requires 2 full
> pixmaps per client window, compiz only one). For me, with a 128M nvidia
> 5650go, I run into the black window problem after only a few windows with
> beryl, but have never seen it with compiz. Also, compiz appears, at least
> for me, smoother and faster. Running beryl the effects are quite jerky.
I switched to beryl, because compiz has problems with twinview.
For example, maximize always covers both screens.
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