{"id":70,"date":"2009-05-09T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2022-11-02T07:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T07:20:23","slug":"weird-pauses-ubuntu-jaunty-in-compiz-ati-fglrx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Weird Pauses Ubuntu Jaunty in Compiz \/ ATI fglrx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Jaunty the other day.  A relatively smooth upgrade, but one thing was really annoying me.<\/p>\n<p>The open source drivers for the machine don&#8217;t support compiz effects, which I&#8217;ve come to rely on for genuinely useful task switching, inverting the colours of windows, and magnifying.  So I used the proprietary ATI fglrx drivers.   All worked well apart from a really annoying several-second delay each time a window was maximized or resized.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find anything relevant on the interwebs until today.  Apparently this issue is widespread, and is the result of the xserver &#8220;back filling&#8221; any maximized or resized windows to prevent momentary display corruption within that window.  This goes really slowly!<\/p>\n<p>There is now a patch &#8211; basically just an xserver which abandons the back filling.  The appropriate repositories can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edge.launchpad.net\/~ubuntu-x-swat\/+archive\/xserver-no-backfill\">https:\/\/edge.launchpad.net\/~ubuntu-x-swat\/+archive\/xserver-no-backfill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Jaunty the other day. A relatively smooth upgrade, but one thing was really annoying me. The open source drivers for the machine don&#8217;t support compiz effects, which I&#8217;ve come to rely on for genuinely useful task switching, inverting the colours of windows, and magnifying. So I used the proprietary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=70\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weird Pauses Ubuntu Jaunty in Compiz \/ ATI fglrx&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}