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

[Dick Gevers]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:51:52 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote about [Cooker]
ANNOUNCE: Christmas gift for GNOME / Metacity users:

>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

I'm afraid I'll be doing that right after this message. Everything
graphical is now d...d slow. 

I'm using the xmga driver on the MGA G550 AGP card, with only 64 Mb of on
board memory. It's too little for compositing, I imagine.

I'm glad others are happy about it.

Ciao,
=Dick Gevers=