Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl, KDE, gnome

[Jason Weisberger]

As far as I know, you can still only get Xgl from a portage overlay.  Check
the Gentoo Forums and you'll find a bunch of links to what you're looking
for.  I've had it working for some time, and it's good, but extremely buggy
and not suitable for production environments (obviously :)

Here's part three of the huge Xgl discussion.  Part 1 is where the original
overlay is at:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-442410-highlight-xgl.html

On 3/31/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/30/06, Roy Wright <royw@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > After playing with the Kororaa Xgl Live CD, then with Xorg 7 entering
> > ebuild testing,
> > I decided to give Xgl a try.
>
> Neat-o.  Is it in the ~x86 area?
>
> > The xorg 7 upgrade went extremely smooth.  Big THANK YOU to those
> > responsible!
> >
> > The wiki instructions for installing Xgl worked too.
>
> I'm extremely interested in Xgl.  I didn't know it was hanging around
> Gentoo.  Can you send me the link?
>
> > Then I discovered what gnome-window-decorator does in KDE.  Not
> pretty.  :-(
> > I figured I could live:
> > * with old fashioned decorations,
> > * without my background image,
> > * with my panel stretching across both monitors,
> > * with windows opening centered on the desktop vs on a display,
> > * with some brain dead right mouse desktop popup menu.
>
> Can you try and get me some more detailed info?  I'm a information
> gatherer for the Xgl project.  I'm supposed to be ensuring that it has
> perfect integration with KDE.
>
> > But I couldn't live with a dead X the next morning.  So bye-bye Xgl.
>
> Even more interesting...  Could you get some more info for me there
> too?  Perhaps a few clips from the log file?
>
> > OK, off to the net to see what I could find, which distilled down to use
> > gnome.
> > Next gen KDE should have similar features.
> >
> > Well, I've never really gave gnome a try, so maybe it's not as bad as it
> > looks. :-)
>
> It's not *bad,* but I find it incredibly bland.  It's useable, though
> I can't say it's much more...
>
> > Installed gnome.
>
> Weee...  have fun?
>
> > Now what I'd really like is to be able to switch between X+KDE and
> Xgl+gnome
> > sessions.  I don't really see how to do this with one display manager.
> > Not sure
> > how to configure to run multiple display managers.  Currently I use xdm
> > to run
> > kdm.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Roy
> >
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