Enabling Compiz by default?

[dragoran]

On 8/10/07, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> 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


thats java which is broken here not compiz.
its not hoplessly broken there is a workaround for it
export AWT_TOOLKIT="MToolkit
but there are other bugs I explained above (opengl apps)

and you'd want to use one of the actually maintained compositing managers
> instead.


? don't understand this compiz _is_ activly maintained

Even then
>
> - Do you know anyone who doesn't turn the effects off eventually ?
> - Do we care about the huge increase in power consumption ?


yes here I agree with you.. even thought I don't know how 'huge' it really
is.
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