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Xvesa -shadow mode?

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PDP-8:
I was reading through some of the canonical docs about Xvesa and wondered if anyone was using the -shadow option - purportedly to boost performance...

http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xvesa.1.html

How would that look/be implemented in the bootcode line?

Has anyone implemented it and seen a boost?

Rich:
Hi PDP-8

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I think you would have to add it to the  Xvesa  command in your  ~/.xsession  file.

neonix:

--- Quote from: PDP-8 on July 03, 2019, 07:18:54 AM ---I was reading through some of the canonical docs about Xvesa and wondered if anyone was using the -shadow option - purportedly to boost performance...

http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xvesa.1.html

How would that look/be implemented in the bootcode line?

Has anyone implemented it and seen a boost?

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Since 2013 TinyCoreLinux team created its own fork of TinyX where this option is enabled by default. In earlier releases you have to use -shadow parameter but Tinycore use it in .xsession  file since the beginning of this distribution. This means that you don't have to do anything to use this option.

PDP-8:
Thanks neonix - that's great to know.  Smart guys at the helm of TC I tell ya' !

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