Re: [Cooker] ANNOUNCE: Christmas gift for GNOME / Metacity users

[Pacho Ramos]

Isn't it a joke?

Great! Thanks a lot :-D


El miÃ, 19-12-2007 a las 11:51 +0100, Frederic Crozat escribiÃ:
> Hi folks,
> 
> just a small announce for the arrival of new compositor code in Metacity
> package (2.21.3-2mdv) which has been merged last night in metacity SVN
> trunk (ie it will be available in next release of metacity).
> 
> I've pushed the code in our package and I've enabled compositor by
> default. 
> 
> What does it bring to you, metacity users :
> -Composited managed desktop (some applications might use it, like
> transparent applications such as gnome-terminal and probably others)
> -brand new alt-TAB with screenshot of applications and highlight of
> to-be-focused app
> -nice shadow around windows (now, you can have an idea on the initial
> design of Ia Ora window theme :)
> -NO openGL required !!
> 
> Please report any bug you find (better to submit them directly to
> bugzilla.gnome.org, state you are using the new compositor code and cc
> my email in the bug).
> 
> If you want to disable compositor, just run :
> 
> gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager
> false
> 
> to enable it back :
> gconftool-2 --unset /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager
> 
> Merry Christmas
> 
> oh, BTW, I'll be in holidays starting tonight until December 26. Let's
> hope it won't break cooker too much :)
>