When moving from 4.16.0 to 4.16.1, the xcomposite USE flag has been removed from the ebuild, and the ebuild now permanently configures --enable-compositor . Why? Compositing is a *very* bad idea in our environment, users should not be able to enable it. (This is for a server serving many remote desktop sessions. Compositing significantly increases network load / delay for remote sessions, and it increases CPU load, because remote sessions don't use GPU acceleration.)
Is disabling it in settings not sufficient? Usage isn't forced. e.g. xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing -s false
(In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #1) > Is disabling it in settings not sufficient? Usage isn't forced. e.g. > xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing -s false This has two drawbacks: 1. Default is on, which means we either have to rely on users to turn it off, or have to run some script whenever new users are added (these are student accounts at a university, so userids come and go each term). 2. Even when turned off, users can turn it back on.
David, could you make a patch reverting that part of your change?
I added it to https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/19079 .
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=15bd01769228fe8a1503625bb188a86dcfebe443 commit 15bd01769228fe8a1503625bb188a86dcfebe443 Author: David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2021-01-16 17:41:39 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-01-16 19:03:13 +0000 xfce-base/xfwm4: restore xcomposite USE flag Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/765523 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.12, Repoman-3.0.2 Signed-off-by: David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/19079 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> xfce-base/xfwm4/xfwm4-4.16.1.ebuild | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
