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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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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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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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But I couldn't live with a dead X the next morning. So bye-bye Xgl. |
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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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Installed gnome. |
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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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