compiz - Oct 2006 - cow by default?

Hi David,

--use-cow seems to be quite stable on all variations of tfp (xgl, aiglx, 
nvidia), I think it was the plan to default-enable it. Do you think it's 
ready for that? Want a patch?

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On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 16:04 +0200, Hanno B?ck wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> --use-cow seems to be quite stable on all variations of tfp (xgl, aiglx, 
> nvidia), I think it was the plan to default-enable it. Do you think
it's
> ready for that? Want a patch?
Yes, lets make it default.

-David

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 12:17 -0400, Kristian H?gsberg
wrote:
> On 10/4/06, David Reveman <davidr@novell.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 16:04 +0200, Hanno B?ck wrote:
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > --use-cow seems to be quite stable on all variations of tfp (xgl,
aiglx,
> > > nvidia), I think it was the plan to default-enable it. Do you
think it's
> > > ready for that? Want a patch?
> >
> > Yes, lets make it default.
> 
> By the way, there's an issue with cow and the
> unredirect_fullscreen_windows.  The overlay window is by definition on
> top of all windows, so an unredirected fullscreen window will still be
> under the cow.  One solution to this is to reparent the fullscreen
> window to the cow while it's unredirected.  I don't have a patch,
just
> wanted to mention the issue.
I didn't think of this, we should solve this before we can make it
default. Is there a way to disable the cow for a while? Maybe we can set
the shape of the cow. I think that would be easier to get right than
reparenting the fullscreen window to the cow as there's a lot of code
that depend on client windows being normal top-level windows.

-David