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In desktop Mate 17.03 settings I see that there are multiple window manager options. Marco, Metacity, Composting and mixtures of them are available. I was just wondering which took the least and most GPU resources?

I don't see such options on my Cinnamon installs.

urdrwho wrote:In desktop Mate 17.03 settings I see that there are multiple window manager options. Marco, Metacity, Composting

I think that Composting is the most environment friendly way of getting rid of things.

@karlchen:

Compositing is heavy. If you disable it you'll have less visual effects, but generally less use of system resources and also improved stability. For those reasons I always disable it.

You can also disable it in Cinnamon:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... n-Cinnamon
(item 7.1, right column)

Hee hee hee! I swear I looked multiple times at that spelling because I thought composting what huh??? Compositing --- there I think I have it.

karlchen wrote:

urdrwho wrote:In desktop Mate 17.03 settings I see that there are multiple window manager options. Marco, Metacity, Composting

I think that Composting is the most environment friendly way of getting rid of things.

That is what I was thinking because back in the years I used Kubuntu KDE compositing took a lot of resources.

Pjotr wrote:@karlchen:

Compositing is heavy. If you disable it you'll have less visual effects, but generally less use of system resources and also improved stability. For those reasons I always disable it.

You can also disable it in Cinnamon:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... n-Cinnamon
(item 7.1, right column)