glxgears no frame rate display

[Collins Richey]

On 10/4/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> > Collins Richey wrote:
> >> These days when I run glxgears,I get no frame rate display.
> >>
> >> I found no info while googling.
> >>
> >> Anyone know what'sup?
> >
> > You need to open a terminal shell, and run from there. The frame-rate is
> > shown in the terminal shell that started glxgears.
>
> No, its not on ubuntu.  Ubuntu decided to remove the framerate reporting
> (by default) for glxgears so that people didn't foolishly use it as a
> benchmark (which it is not).  There's some silly option which will
> re-enable the framerate reporting.
>

That really sucks. Normally I like the Ubuntu approach, but they
didn't even bother to provide a man file or any help.

The silly option is 'glxgears -printfps'.

Thanks fo rthe pointer.


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Collins Richey
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