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Lord Sauron wrote: |
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>On 3/30/06, Roy Wright <royw@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>>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 how to configure to run multiple display managers. Currently |
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>>I use xdm to run kdm. |
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>>Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Sorry for taking so long to respond, I took a spur of the moment vacation. |
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The instructions for XGL are at: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL |
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I'll run another test this evening of Xgl+KDE to capture details. |
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Thank you, |
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Roy |
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