Re: [xmonad] urxvt slow rendering

Thanks for your responses! Much appreciated. Regarding compton -- AFAIK I'm not using compton or any compositing tools. Should I be? I had suspected that it was some kind of Xorg/video config/interaction. I'm using the ATI radeon driver (video card is Radeon HD 8490). with vanilla xorg.conf Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Any suggestions of what I should do? What config files to look at? Software to install? --Richard On 09/03/17 02:01, Brandon Allbery wrote:

Yes, this does sound video driver related. The compton config change is a workaround; XRender is far from being the ideal backend for compositing (the glx backend is usually preferred) but in this case the video driver is apparently not handling it well. In fact this sounds like the bugs I had using compton+glx under VMware video emulation that went away when I ran directly on the hardware.

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:34 AM, vrs mailto:vrs+xmonad@synkretie.net> wrote:

I used to have that problem, turning off terminal transparency helped. Not a fix but at least a workaround. I suspect the video driver because it was a change in driver that caused it, if I recall correctly.

Quoting Richard Watson (2017-03-08 03:17:18) > Hello > > I've been a long-time xmonad user (over 5 years) on all my machines, > installing using the Debian package. > > I'm currently running Debian jessie kernel 3.16 on my main desktop. > > Recently I upgraded Debian on my primary desktop (jessie kernel 3.16). > I'm running xmonad v0.11, instead of v0.10 on my other machines. > > I notice that when certain GUI application are running (e.g. Chrome, > vmplayer, but not firefox & thunderbird) my urxvt terminal renders > *really* slowly, redrawing the window line at a time! I also notice a > huge X server CPU load (25-50%, as shown by top). > > I've looked at X server logs and config and cannot see anything that is > unusual. > > Could there be an xmonad issue here? Has anyone else experienced > something similar? Any hints as to how to debug this? > > --Richard Watson > _______________________________________________ > xmonad mailing list > xmonad@haskell.org mailto:xmonad@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org mailto:xmonad@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

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