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Xorg and Desktop Eyecandy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sounds-delicious-to-me dept.

BonoLeBonobo writes "Xorg is going to include a new acceleration architecture which will help desktops to have better eye-candy effects thanks to a better XRender, thus composite, acceleration. Developped by Zack Rusin, a KDE and Qt developper, this new feature should be present in Xorg in September. Porting the existing drivers to this new acceleration architecture should be easy."

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  1. Edible Displays by NotFamous · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Try the new edible display from apple - the iCandy!

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  2. RenderAccel by RoadkillBunny · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Before adding further acceleration, how about fix the current problems? Many people have problems with X locking up when using nvidia and RenderAccel (which give a huge speed boost before lock up). When I ask if there is a fix for it, the answer I get is "You shouldn't use it, it's experimental".

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