XGL performance & bugs on gutsy

[David Vincent]

Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
> I've got a Dell inspiron 700m with intel i855 graphics.  Before gutsy,
> beryl and XGL ran fine, my only problem was with 3d games, the effect
> was glitchy and so i would disable XGL for this purpose.
> 
> However now, compiz only does transparent windows and shading. cube
> doesn't work.  beryl has unresolved dependencies.  and the worst part:
> 
> XGL is always hogging 10% of my system resources, even when i have
> effects turned off.  3D games run unplayably slow and even just
> regular browser window scrolling and video playback are jerky and
> freeze up from time to time.  3d screensavers cause a weird "double
> vision" effect with gnome windows after i unlock the workstation.
> 
> How can I get rid of XGL on gutsy? This is so far the worst addition
> to the Ubuntu desktop I have seen... it has no practical purpose and
> has effectively crippled my workstation.
> 

$ touch ~/.config/xserver-xgl/disable

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