Comment 4 for bug 929989

On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Daniel van Vugt wrote:

> On that note... why is *-window-decorator a separate program instead of
> a plugin? Sounds like there would be fewer issues if it wasn't in a
> separate process (like Gnome Shell AFAIK).
>

Partly political reasons, partly performance reasons - generating the
decorations out of process has pretty huge benefits because you can
optimize the pixmap generation (eg instead of drawing on each frame window
you can generate one decoration and use a bit of protocol to paint it
correctly).

I explored this a lot more in
lp:~smspillaz/compiz-core/compiz-core.decorator but we never merged it

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> Title:
> compiz (decor) - Warn: failed to bind pixmap to texture
>
> Status in Compiz Core:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Whenever I run compiz I get lots of these in the log:
> compiz (decor) - Warn: failed to bind pixmap to texture
>
> Either this indicates a bug that needs fixing, or this warning is
> lower priority than it sounds and should be removed...
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