Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Wednesday 26 January 2011, Alex Schuster did opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon writes: > > Using nvidia.ko, KDE with desktop effects enabled (especially translucent > > popup thumbnails on the task bar, and blur effect on) makes my notebook > > fan run all the time and kwin uses 20% cpu according to top. > > Does the blur effect do anything? With my ATI card, I did not notice a > change when enabling it, other than the CPU going really high. Yes, it has a visible effect. It's subtle so you have to look closely but it's there. The config popup for the effect has a slider for degree of effect but I didn't see that change much, as if the range from min to max was not wide enough -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
