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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/04/12 22:50, Alan Bell wrote:
> it also matters whether the animation frames are synced to the 
> vertical blanking timings. One thing you can do to make quite a few 
> compiz related things smoother is to turn the mouse position polling 
> down to 1 (or anything less than about 15) this will mean that panning 
> around a zoomed desktop is totally smooth and if you have the show 
> mouse plugin the stars keep pace with the mouse and look beautiful. 
> Apparently there is no performance penalty for doing this now that the 
> compiz mainloop has changed a bit (I don't know the details, I just 
> asked in the #compiz IRC channel what the performance impact would 
> be). I think I submitted a patch suggesting a change to the default 
> mouse polling time somewhere.
>
> Alan.
here is the bug in question:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-plugins-main/+bug/930783

I have done a few others where I filed a bug, added a tiny patch and 
heard nothing more. What am I doing wrong here?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-plugins-main/+bug/975029
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-plugins-extra/+bug/930786

Alan.

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