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-rw-r--r--.emacs.d/blueish-theme.el1
-rw-r--r--.xmonad/xmonad.hs40
2 files changed, 38 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/.emacs.d/blueish-theme.el b/.emacs.d/blueish-theme.el
index 7d30cc0..02a19dd 100644
--- a/.emacs.d/blueish-theme.el
+++ b/.emacs.d/blueish-theme.el
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
;; ----------------- Frame stuff --------------------
'(default ((((type graphic)) (:background "#091419" :foreground "#c0d0d6"))))
+ '(link ((t (:foreground "DarkSlateGray3"))))
'(cursor ((t (:background "#F8F8F0"))))
'(hl-line ((t (:background "#666666"))))
'(modeline ((t (:background "#183c66" :foreground "white"))))
diff --git a/.xmonad/xmonad.hs b/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
index cec291c..ddae622 100644
--- a/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
+++ b/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ with vsync enabled in nvidia-settings:
flashing
- compton --backend xrender --vsync opengl --paint-on-overlay: same
- compton --backend xrender --vsync opengl --dbe: same
-- compton --backend xrender -cf: eliminates the white flash, though a
- bit slower; same as without -cf otherwise
+- compton --backend xrender -cf: hides (smoothes) the white flash,
+ though a bit slower; same as without -cf otherwise
- with --vsync drm: "VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this
drmver?"
@@ -71,9 +71,43 @@ do much of versioning or releases, or of other conventional things,
but the package update date is 2014-10-16). I still don't see why this
happens (would probably have to debug, or at least to try a newer
version), but it does.
+
+
+With "Full Composition Pipeline" enabled in nvidia-settings:
+
+Occasionally some kind of a phantom mouse cursor appears and blinks on
+top of emacs window now; can be erased by moving a real cursor through
+it. Sometimes it vanishes on its own. Happens with or without compton.
+
+- no compton: white flashes when switching to FF, fine otherwise (no
+ screen tearing in FF)
+- compton --backend xrender: same as without compton
+- compton --backend xrender -cf: hides (smoothes) the flashes.
+- compton --backend glx: no flashes, but screen tearing in emacs
+- compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay: same (maybe the tearing
+ gets visible faster -- that is, worse)
+- compton --backend glx --vsync opengl: same
+- compton --backend glx --vsync opengl --paint-on-overlay: same
+- compton --backend glx --vsync opengl-swc --sw-opti: maybe slightly
+ better, but essentially the same
+
+A summary of the more common issues:
+
+@
+| issue / backend | xrender | glx |
+|-------------------------+-------------+--------|
+| screen tearing in FF | without FCP | never |
+| screen tearing in emacs | never | always |
+| phantom cursor | with FCP | ? |
+| white flashes in FF | always | never |
+@
+
+
+
-}
-runCompton = spawnOnce "compton --backend xrender -cf"
+-- for some reason this doesn't seem to work anymore
+runCompton = spawnOnce "compton --backend xrender -cf"
main = do
-- This is awkward, but apparently there's no better standard way to