Bug 538802

Summary: Alt-Tab behaviour unusable slow with Metacity compositor
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: alexf <aldafu+fedora>
Component: metacityAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: cbm, otaylor
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Description alexf 2009-11-19 13:16:06 UTC
Description of problem:
In comparison to F11 alt-tabbing (switching) between applications is so slow that I'm not using it anymore since it is unbearable. It seems that mainly the "initialization" of the alt-tab process is slow, because once the window showing all open applications comes up (which is the slow part) things are fine.

I use focus-follows-mouse without bringing the focused window to the foreground.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
metacity-2.28.0-9.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Just try alt-tabbing.

Actual results:
It's too slow.

Expected results:
Needs to be as fast as with F11.

Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2009-11-20 14:28:36 UTC
Do you have the metacity compositor turned on by any chance? (If you don't know what that is, then the answer is no; you'd have to have changed a GConf key to turn it on.)

Comment 2 alexf 2009-11-22 19:23:47 UTC
Yes, it's enabled. I know gconf.

Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2009-11-22 19:45:25 UTC
Almost certainly an X driver bug then. What video card do you have so I can reassign this to the appropriate place?

Comment 4 alexf 2009-11-22 21:54:26 UTC
Ok, I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650. lspci calls it RV635.

I use mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, maybe that's why.

Comment 5 Colin Macdonald 2010-05-04 21:27:52 UTC
Still present in F13, not driver specific.

Upstream is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504729

I posted a simple work-around patch there.  May I propose for F13?

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Comment 7 Colin Macdonald 2010-11-04 09:44:32 UTC
Still present in F14.

Ping: I posted a patch in the upstream bug (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504729)

Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 03:09:58 UTC
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Comment 9 Colin Macdonald 2010-12-04 09:19:15 UTC
I don't have permission to reopen but this is still present in F14, as per my comment #7 (posted a month before you closed this).

As I've mentioned several times, I posted a patch in the upstream bug.

Comment 10 Owen Taylor 2012-03-22 19:58:44 UTC
The metacity compositor is unsupportable and we're not going to put any effort into it other than packaging whatever is upstream.