Lubuntu alternative sessions script

[Federico Leoni]

Em 12/07/2013 11:57, "Ali Linx (amjjawad)" <amjjawad at gmail.com> escreveu:
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> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Federico Leoni <effelle at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> A little update.
>> As many of you know Plank doesn't have applets but supports just launchers. I work a bit on it and now you can enable/disable Compton (with or without shadows) from the dash. Default is off to preserve speed. I added a very basic trash too.
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGXvoATdiNI
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>> As soon as I can I'll share the necessary script and I'll update the wiki.
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>> F.
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> Amazing.
> Now, if you can do the same video but with top and/or htop showing what is going on :)
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> I see your machine is not old, it has large RAM ;) :D
> But all in all, looks like these effects are so light and didn't make any difference but in order for everyone to confirm, please, run "top" and/or "htop" :)
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> http://youtu.be/2Wmaxoo6Cpg
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> Thank you!
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> "All of us are smarter than any one of us."
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> Best Regards,
> amjjawad
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>

Folks,

here's a video using top (htop doesn't refresh well during composite
switch). I made it with a Dell Gx620 with a P4 3ghz, 2Gb ram and a
Nvidia gt210 card @1920x1080x24bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE22ta_r5Yc

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3787/9272273722_dbd8c54082_b.jpg

And just to kill curiosity here's a video done on my old notebook, a
Dell C400 with a P3 866mhz, 768mb @1024x768x16bit ram and integrated
i830. Zram enabled., same session setup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSylaBgRRTY

In both cases the screenrecorder eats heavily the CPU and the whole
system is less responsive. That's more evident on the P3 obviously.
Without recording works fair enough. I tried with recordmydesktop (gtk
and from terminal) but when I enable shadows screen act strange.
Probably because this recorder uses a un-decorated window and Compton
try to draw shadows on it.

I did those screencasts on Lubuntu 13.04 because of a bug found with
Plank on 13.10. Anyway performance are the same.

F.