What are the differences between compiz and metacity? I would like to try the desktop bling on my box which has a radeon 9250. Metacity has a composite manager, can I just enable that or is compiz better?
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On 08/23/06 16:05 -0400 Louis Garcia II wrote:
What are the differences between compiz and metacity? I would like to try the desktop bling on my box which has a radeon 9250. Metacity has a composite manager, can I just enable that or is compiz better?
You'll need to use compiz. If you install the latest version for development you can enable it just by System-->Prefs-->More Prefs-->Desktop Effects.
Sam
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Hi,
What are the differences between compiz and metacity? I would like to try the desktop bling on my box which has a radeon 9250. Metacity has a composite manager, can I just enable that or is compiz better?
I'm also a little lost. What really happens when you install compiz and select the Desktop effects in the Advanced preferences? Is metacity disabled? In this case, should the metacity package be uninstalled? On the other hand, what's the difference with enabling the metacity composite extension without installing compiz?
Cheers,
Émeric
Current "metacity" packages have the compositor functionality disabled. Right now, you cannot enable compositor features in "metacity" without rebuilding it. When you select "desktop effects", "metacity" gets replaced by "compiz" and vice versa.
I'm also a little lost. What really happens when you install compiz and select the Desktop effects in the Advanced preferences? Is metacity disabled? In this case, should the metacity package be uninstalled? On the other hand, what's the difference with enabling the metacity composite extension without installing compiz?
Cheers,
Emeric
Current "metacity" packages have the compositor functionality disabled. Right now, you cannot enable compositor features in "metacity" without rebuilding it.
Can't you enable the compositing features in metacity in CLI with
gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true
and
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" EndSection
in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as documented on the AiglxOnFedora Wiki page?
When you select "desktop effects", "metacity" gets replaced by "compiz" and vice versa.
What are the plans for the future: enable the compositing features of metacity or replace metacity with compiz? BTW, what will happen when both compiz and metacity with composite features enabled are installed on a system?
Cheers,
Émeric
Can't you enable the compositing features in metacity in CLI with
gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true
and
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" EndSection
in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as documented on the AiglxOnFedora Wiki page?
No, you can't. As I said: "metacity" is built -without- compositor functionality. Setting the "gconf" does not change anything.
BTW, what will happen when both compiz and metacity with composite features enabled are installed on a system?
You will simply have 2 compositing window managers between which you switch by means of activating "desktop effects". Options that you can checkmark of course only apply to "compiz". "metacity" compositing effects are not supported in the user interface. Btw, your questions had been discussed exhaustively earlier this month in thread "Wither bling?" at:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00362.html
Le jeudi 24 août 2006 à 12:32 +0200, Joachim Frieben a écrit :
Btw, your questions had been discussed exhaustively earlier this month in thread "Wither bling?" at:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00362.html
Thank you for your explanations and this pointer.
Émeric