Idea #9451: Create software fallbacks for composite rendering

Written by mangar the 4 Jun 08 at 00:08. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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currently, applications that use composite effects cannot be initialized without having compiz (or other composite rendering server) running.

please create a software based fall back for those applications, whether in X server extensions, or in the applications themselves.

Two problematic applications I know of are Elisa media center and avant window navigator - both fail to run without compiz.

Note:
Enlightenment DE and OsX (afaik) are software rendered.

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sebsauvage wrote on the 4 Jun 08 at 07:26

In short, you're asking for a CPU-hog ?
-1, sorry.

Warbo wrote on the 4 Jun 08 at 18:13

This could involve running xcompmgr with the fancy options turned off.

I agree that having applications fail to run due to a cryptic message like "No composite support" is bad for new users.

jpietari wrote on the 5 Jun 08 at 00:07

I thought I saw a potential new feature for the avant window navigator was to get it working without compiz enabled

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