CentOS - Jun 2005 - dragging windows leaves traces

I have an excellent nvidia graphics card, I get excellent fps, all agp 
features are installed correctly etc.

When I drag windows around wit hthe opaque settings on it leaves traces 
for a couple milliseconds as it redraws the window, but it just looks so 
crummy to see.

I am having a hard time convincing people that using linux is a good idea.

People make judgements on this type of thing and they think that linux is 
slow compared to Windows.

When I had windows installed on this same machine dragging windows around 
did not produce any traces.

Using linux on the desktop looks like a throwback to windows 95 on a 486.

Does anyone have any advice on how to make X redraw windows better.

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Are you using the x.org driver (nv) or the nvidia one?

I've tried nvidia driver with RENDER extension and XFCE development 
version on __gentoo__, and moving transparent windows were "smooth".

However I'd not use such a setup on a serious machine (which CentOS is 
fine for). (Maybe only the nvidia driver but without the RENDER extension).

-- sukru

Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
> I have an excellent nvidia graphics card, I get excellent fps, all agp 
> features are installed correctly etc.
>
> When I drag windows around wit hthe opaque settings on it leaves 
> traces for a couple milliseconds as it redraws the window, but it just 
> looks so crummy to see.
>
> I am having a hard time convincing people that using linux is a good 
> idea.
>
> People make judgements on this type of thing and they think that linux 
> is slow compared to Windows.
>
> When I had windows installed on this same machine dragging windows 
> around did not produce any traces.
>
> Using linux on the desktop looks like a throwback to windows 95 on a 486.
>
> Does anyone have any advice on how to make X redraw windows better.
>