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On 10/10/06, b.n. <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > If you *really* want eye candy, try using beryl and emerald from the |
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> > portage-xgl layman overlay. ;-) |
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> Yes, I investigated it. But it seems my card is not so well supported by |
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> XGL (If you have different experiences let me know) and XGL eye candy |
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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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> is (still) not what I was looking for, at least as for what I've seen |
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> (I'd never use wobbly windows and rotating cubes, sorry). The little, |
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> subtle effects of composite are enough. |
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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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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, although I could watch |
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my windows wobble and jiggle all day! |
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> > I am pretty sure though that xcompmgr and friends (kcompmgr) are dead. |
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> > Bugs I've reported against KDE 3.5's compositing issues have been |
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> > closed with "WONTFIX" and comments that indicate this. |
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> That's interesting. Can you point me to a link? |
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Hmm, I seem to be a bit confused with my bug reports [1] and stuff |
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I've read elsewhere. But google around a bit for xcompmgr and read |
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what others are saying, and consider that xcompmgr hasn't seen any |
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significant work in over 2 years [2]. |
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> I would not like to be forced to change WM. I'd like to have the same |
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> effects, no matter what WM I'm running. Composite runs independently of |
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> the WM - why isn't the same for XGL? |
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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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-Richard |
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