Re: Enabling Compiz by default?

[alan <alan clueserver org>]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Dr. Diesel wrote:

> On 8/9/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Have we considered enabling Compiz by default in GNOME and fall back to
> > metacity if the driver or hardware don't support acceleration? That
> > would get desktop effects out of the box on Intel and some ATI cards.
> >
> > Rahul
> >
> > --
> Last time I checked the default Remote Desktop utility (vino) was
> still broken?  Nothing but a frozen screen anyhow.
>
> I use desktop effects as a propaganda piece for Linux, works great!
> But even with my newer Intel 965/3000 it's a big sluggish.  A 7900GT
> Nvidia puts the hurtin on it though :D
>
> I vote for keeping it super easy to enable, but off.

Even with the commercial drivers, it is damned hard to get working 
correctly.  (The nvidia config script needs a "turn it all on" option.)

I need to see how compiz-fusion handles configuration.  Beryl, you can 
have it loaded and have the window manager set to something non-beryl. 
(Very nice when you need OpenGL for other things.)  I am wondering if that 
is an option in the "new" version.

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