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Richard Fish ha scritto: |
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> Yeah, I'm not a fan of Xgl either, but I am of AIGLX, and I was under |
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> the impression that the open source radeon driver had good support for |
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> AIGLX. I'm using nvidia, so I had to wait for the 9xxx driver release |
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> before I could use it... :-( |
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I was under the impression AIGLX was dying in favour of Xgl. Well, I'll |
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do my research :) |
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> You can disable most of that of course if you want. If all you want |
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> is shadows and transparencies, you can configure just those plugins. |
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Ok. I once thought that the trend was with Composite taking care of |
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shadows and transparences, while Xgl/AIGLX were about 3d-eye candy, but |
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it would have made little sense indeed. |
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> I find the task switcher that displays live images of the windows, and |
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> the scale effect (move the cursor to a corner of the screen and all |
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> windows shrink and tile on the screen, and then you click on the one |
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> you want to switch to) to be the most useful, |
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Yes, an Exposè-like thing would be really useful. Is it *fast*? |
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> although I could watch |
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> my windows wobble and jiggle all day! |
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lol! |
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> For simple things like shadows and transparency, that could be done |
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> independently of the window manager. But for more complicated |
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> effects, like the task switcher, or being able to animate window |
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> operations, or flash windows that want attention, or the desktop cube |
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> thingy, you need tighter integration with the window manager. |
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Sigh. I see. I wonder if/when common WMs/DEs will support these things |
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out of the box (KDE, XFCE and Fluxbox are my favourites :) ) |
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m. |
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