metacity aiglx ati x600

Thomas J. Baker tjb at unh.edu
Thu Sep 14 17:50:56 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:10 +0200, Mads Villadsen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 15:36 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> > Compositing was dropped from metacity as compiz was deemed the one true
> > path. Install compiz and then enable with Preferences->More
> > Preferences->Desktop Effects.
> 
> That is simply not true - at least not for the gnome project (and I hope
> not for the fedora project as well).
> 
> It is clearly stated in the release notes for gnome 2.16 that metacity
> has many different effects. However it also states that it has to be
> compiled with a special option to work.
> 
> So maybe --enable-compositor has not been used when compiling the
> metacity rpm?
> -- 
> Mads Villadsen <maxx at krakoa.dk>
> 

This has been discussed here:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00362.html

tjb
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