Re: Multiple issues with wallpaper handling

[Chris Dekter <cdekter gmail com>]

I should restate that this problem absolutely only occurs when two 
monitors are enabled. If I disable the second monitor and perform the 
same tests, there is absolutely no change in performance. Did you 
conduct your testing with two monitors?

On 02/12/11 13:10, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> Does the issue exist if you run raw mutter? I can't reproduce the
> issue here with mutter or with gnome-shell. There's no performance dip
> if I lock the screen or change the wallpaper.
>
> The code that handles the wallpaper is here:
>
>      http://git.gnome.org/browse/mutter/tree/src/compositor/meta-background-actor.c
>
> You can see that it tries very hard to make sure that it's not holding
> onto the pixmap any more than it needs to.