Enabling Compiz by default?

[Pádraig Brady]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 18:18 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:24:05AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Compiz is too buggy to use - its still hopelessly broken with java menus
>> and you'd want to use one of the actually maintained compositing managers
>> instead. Even then
> 
> What kind of drugs are you on?  Compiz is probably the only maintained
> compositing manager.

It's still too buggy to use though.
I tried it for a while in F7 and dropped it for many little reasons.
Search for "3D desktop issues" here for details:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/fc7.html

cheers,
Pádraig.