If compositing is enabled, switching windows takes 5 to 10 s, while kwin process takes 100% CPU. After a few minutes compositing gets automatically disabled with the notice that it was too slow. The video card is Quadro NVS 140M/PCI/SSE2. The hardware is clearly not an issue - it used to run compiz with all its effects lightning fast. Settings: # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] nvidia * [2] xorg-x11 # eselect profile show Current make.profile symlink: default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib 'opengl' is among USE flags # glxinfo | grep render direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Quadro NVS 140M/PCI/SSE2 GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color, GL_NV_copy_image, GL_NVX_conditional_render, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, xorg.conf excerpt: Quote: Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension SubSection "extmod" Option "omit xfree86-dga" EndSubSection Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "wfb" Load "xtrap" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia Quadro NVS 140M" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "nVidia Quadro NVS 140M" Option "UseEdidDpi" "false" Option "UseEdidFreqs" "true" Option "DPI" "96 x 96" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true" Option "UseEvents" "true" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "EnableACPIHotkeys" "true" Option "IncludeImplicitMetaModes" "false" Option "TwinView" "true" Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1280x800, DFP-1: 1280x800; DFP-0: 1280x1024, DFP-1: 1280x1024" Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0,DFP-1" Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone" EndSection KDE Settings -> Desktop has: Enable desktop effects checked Compositing type = OpenGL Disable functionality checks unchecked OpenGL mode = Texture From Pixmap Texture filter = Nearest Enable direct rendering checked Use VSync checked
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So... Try with KDE 4.3.5 (stable) or 4.4.0 (~arch) and latest experimental nvidia-drivers? I'm not sure what do you expect from here with this information, pretty hard to support binary-only drivers setup.
No response for two months, old kde version.