Oooh, it draws fast again
Since Foresight’s X server started using EXA for acceleration by default with the intel driver, various bits of rendering on the desktop have been horribly slow. Fortunately it’s still possible to switch back to XAA, which at least on my i915 is faster. Just stick
Option “AccelMethod” “xaa”
In the driver section of xorg.conf. Hopefully EXA will get faster in the future.