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@@ -1,3 +1,34 @@ +This is the 'spifficity' branch of metacity. It is intended to take advantage of +new X extensions such as composite, damage and fixes. Some brokenness should be +expected. + +Somewhat surprisingly, the better the video card you have, the worse +performance you should expect. The technical reason for this is that +better video cards usually have more frame-buffer memory, so more +windows will end up being put in the framebuffer. This casues +software rendering to slow down because reading from the framebuffer +is really slow. + +To get reasonable performance, try adding + + Option "NoAccel" + +to the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. This will +likely improve performance a lot when a compositing manager is +running, but also hurt performance a lot when no compositing manager +is running. + +Besides the drop-shadows which were lifted from Keith Packard's +xcompmgr, you should also see gtk+ (> 2.6) applications applications +resize a lot more smoothly. If someone adds support for the +_NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST protocol to Qt, you should see Qt applications +resize smoothly too. + + + +Original README: + + Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also it may have something to do with the Meta key |