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pogeymanz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

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Gnome tweaks?

I usually use XFCE and there are some things I think it does better.

In XFCE, when I use the mouse-scroll over the desktop, it switches workspaces. Gnome only does this if I hover the mouse over the panel desktop-switcher. How can I make it more like XFCE?

Also, does Gnome have a built-in compositor like XFCE4? I like having my windows have shadows...

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Re: Gnome tweaks?

IIRC, GNOME doesn't have an inbuilt compositor.
KDE4 has kwin, xfce has xfwm4, GNOME and KDE3 users have to make do with compiz, and everyone else has to use xcompmgr.

And i'm pretty sure you can't make GNOME do the mouse-scroll over desktop thing. You could of course bind change desktop to your scroll wheel, but at the hilarious expense of not being able to scroll

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pogeymanz

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Re: Gnome tweaks?

That's what I was figuring. Oh well, I think it would be silly to install compiz just because I want some shadows...:/

JGC

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Re: Gnome tweaks?

metacity 2.22.0 comes with an integrated compositor, you'll have to enable it from GConf. I think the integrated compositor is not ready yet, a lot of work is done on improving it for gnome 2.23, which will become 2.24 in the next half year.

hekel

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Re: Gnome tweaks?

Metacity has had built in compositing since 2.14 though it hasn't really worked properly until 2.22 it can be enabled via 'gconf-editor' by setting the key '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' as "true".
If you want to use your mousewheel to change desktops in gnome, for the time being compiz is probably the best way to go about this through the 'Viewport Switcher' plugin.

Cimi

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Re: Gnome tweaks?

Metacity has had built in compositing since 2.14 though it hasn't really worked properly until 2.22 it can be enabled via 'gconf-editor' by setting the key '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' as "true".
If you want to use your mousewheel to change desktops in gnome, for the time being compiz is probably the best way to go about this through the 'Viewport Switcher' plugin.

The old compositing stuff used OpenGL (like compiz) and yes, was abandoned and it never worked.

The new compositing uses Xrender, like xfwm4 and works (also cause it it easier).

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pogeymanz

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Re: Gnome tweaks?

Also, this is related to the workspace switcher.

In XFCE, if I drag a window all the way to the edge of the screen, I can carry it over to the next workspace. I believe Compiz can do this too. Can pure-Gnome do this?

abhidg

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Re: Gnome tweaks?

all these capabilties depend on the window manager. so if metacity isn't able to do this, you can always use openbox from within gnome.

schivmeister

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Re: Gnome tweaks?

Ey, KDE 3 has software effects like shadows, fades and transparency.

Last edited by schivmeister (2008-03-24 14:09:37)

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elocal

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Re: Gnome tweaks?

the new compositor in metacity (gnome 2.22) works pretty good.  It is pretty simple, but allows 3d to work just as good as without compositing, something i had trouble with compiz before....