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[Nicolas Delvaux <1046497@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I have a two years old laptop (AMD, 1core@1.6Ghz) which video card is
not supported by any driver (ATI radeon X1200).

On Precise, it ran with Unity 2D. It was not really fast, but it was usable.
I tested Quantal (latest daily-live) and I found that the desktop was not usable.

- the opening/closing animation of a window or menu takes 3 seconds each time
- opening the dash takes around 5 seconds
- moving windows is horribly jerky
- when idle (just with a terminal and a top), compiz eat ~8% of the CPU

AFAIK, compiz supports degrading the user experience according to the computer capabilities.
So why not applying a custom profile to llvmpipe to disable menu fade in/out, windows animations, blur and/or transparency?

Such (supposedly) simple changes could boost FPS quite a bit and lead weak computers to be usable again in this use case.
I could not test myself because ccsm is no longer available in Quantal (I don't know how to tweak Compiz/Unity without it).

** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Unity through llvmpipe is slow

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