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On 3/30/06, Roy Wright <royw@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> After playing with the Kororaa Xgl Live CD, then with Xorg 7 entering |
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> ebuild testing, |
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> I decided to give Xgl a try. |
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Neat-o. Is it in the ~x86 area? |
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> The xorg 7 upgrade went extremely smooth. Big THANK YOU to those |
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> responsible! |
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> The wiki instructions for installing Xgl worked too. |
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I'm extremely interested in Xgl. I didn't know it was hanging around |
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Gentoo. Can you send me the link? |
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> Then I discovered what gnome-window-decorator does in KDE. Not pretty. :-( |
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> I figured I could live: |
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> * with old fashioned decorations, |
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> * without my background image, |
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> * with my panel stretching across both monitors, |
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> * with windows opening centered on the desktop vs on a display, |
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> * with some brain dead right mouse desktop popup menu. |
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Can you try and get me some more detailed info? I'm a information |
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gatherer for the Xgl project. I'm supposed to be ensuring that it has |
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perfect integration with KDE. |
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> But I couldn't live with a dead X the next morning. So bye-bye Xgl. |
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Even more interesting... Could you get some more info for me there |
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too? Perhaps a few clips from the log file? |
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> OK, off to the net to see what I could find, which distilled down to use |
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> gnome. |
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> Next gen KDE should have similar features. |
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> Well, I've never really gave gnome a try, so maybe it's not as bad as it |
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> looks. :-) |
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It's not *bad,* but I find it incredibly bland. It's useable, though |
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I can't say it's much more... |
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> Installed gnome. |
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Weee... have fun? |
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> Now what I'd really like is to be able to switch between X+KDE and Xgl+gnome |
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> sessions. I don't really see how to do this with one display manager. |
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> Not sure |
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> how to configure to run multiple display managers. Currently I use xdm |
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> to run |
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> kdm. |
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> Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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> Thank you, |
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> Roy |
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