Compositor in GDM

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek jakub.rusinek at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 21:32:22 UTC 2008


Dnia 26-03-2008, śro o godzinie 17:18 -0400, Dan Winship pisze:
> Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> > New GDM's feature (from wiki):
> > "a compositor on the login screen, for nice graphical effects"
> > 
> > I don't think this may be a good idea... openSUSE had this, and the
> > compiz ran by GDM never get killed...
> 
> At any rate, IIRC, the reason openSUSE runs compiz over gdm isn't
> because there's a huge need for login-screen bling, it's because Xgl
> assumes that compiz is always there to double-buffer its drawing for it,
> and so if compiz *isn't* there, you see ugly visual artifacts in some
> situations. But Xorg wouldn't have this problem.

I didn't used XGL. XGL is ugly piece of... Hey, you know what ;) .

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