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Month: January 2013

Re: Workaround for bad Qt4 performance

From: Nick Leverton <nick@...>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 01:06:19 +0000 (UTC)
In article <3d615c456c0222c5e2bd44ac71c8bf55.squirrel@...>,
Timothy Pearson <trinity-devel@...> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In short: adding "-graphicssystem raster" to my Qt4 applications' command
>> line
>> improved performance drastically for me. There's also a method to set it
>> programmatically, and an environment variable [2].
>
>Hi Sanne,
>
>Thank you for the tip!  I may look into setting the variable by default on
>X11 TDE sessions to aid in improving Qt4 application performance.

I have been doing this for some time on kmymoney 4.x (my only regular
KDE4 app) and it helps a lot in minimising effects of multiple redraws.

Nick
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