Metacity + Compositor + Intel + Maximize Vertical

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Mar 21 18:18:15 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:12 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> In my stock F8 setup, I had desktop-effects set to off and then started
> compiz with compiz-manager since I use ccsm. After installing F9B, this
> setup would result in my laptop locking up with screen corruption when I
> logged in. After trying some different things, all of which didn't help
> find the problem, I put it back to that original setup and it then
> wouldn't lock up but just log me out when I tried to login. I can't seem
> to run compiz at all now. 
> 
> I was waiting for the big round of updates after the unfreeze to see if
> anything helped.

Since I think this is what I'm seeing, have you tried turning on the
compositer for Metacity?

/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager

I can enable this and be rock solid stable and have some nice effects,
but if I enable compiz my X locks up pretty quickly.


-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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