Bug 165554 - Disable compositing while screensaver is shown
Summary: Disable compositing while screensaver is shown
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 165237
Alias: None
Product: kscreensaver
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kscreensaver bugs tracking
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Reported: 2008-07-02 09:52 UTC by Tomas Mecir
Modified: 2008-07-02 12:16 UTC (History)
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Description Tomas Mecir 2008-07-02 09:52:11 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.4)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

Currently, when I have the compositing effects enabled in KWin, and a screensaver starts, compositing remains enabled, which leads to the screensaver using up a lot of CPU time due to the compositing overhead, which doesn't however have any visible effect.

This means that the fans on my laptop start being noisy, compilation/whatever tasks have to compete for CPU time with kscreensaver/kwin, etc.

Thus, my wish. Please disable the compositing mode of kwin while a scrensaver (or any full-screen application, as I'd imagine this would affect media players too? - untested) is active, then re-enable it when it is hidden.

I am filing this as a kscreensaver wish, as I'm unsure whether this should be handled by it or by kwin, if the latter is he case, please move it to where it needs to be.
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2008-07-02 11:26:50 UTC 
Bug 165156?
Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2008-07-02 12:16:49 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165237 ***