Compiz not installed by default?

[Adam Jackson]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:45 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> That's a nice dream world.  compiz is a GL-based compositing manager and 
>> you are simply not going to get acceptable performance with it in 
>> software for the same reason you can't play quake3 in software.
> 
> Perhaps compiz can just be a boring window manager when the 3d path is
> slow. Right now it's totally broken and our "fix" is throwing the option
> "what WM do you want to use" at the user. Bad. But understandable it
> needs to be this way for a bit longer.

That would involve either adding non-GLX rendering code to compiz, or 
having it exec metacity when the bling infrastructure is unavailable. 
The latter is far easier.

- ajax