You are not logged in.
I was just wondering whether compiz is required for XGL or not, or does XGLs eyecandy apply to desktops such as gnome?
Offline
Compiz is required if you want to use Xgl, as it's the app that utilizes the Xgl stuff.
Compiz replaces metacity as the window manager when you run it, so it works in gnome as well as xfce-svn, available from Shadowhand's repo :-)
I recommend you to look at the wiki page on how to get it working:
Offline
Compiz is required only if you want the fancy effects.
If you "just" want the hardware acceleration for your favourite window manager and one of the rest composite managers, you may go ahead and use it so.
This is what I do sometimes, running xfwm4 and its embedded composite manager over xgl. Works fine.
Offline
Compiz is required only if you want the fancy effects.
If you "just" want the hardware acceleration for your favourite window manager and one of the rest composite managers, you may go ahead and use it so.This is what I do sometimes, running xfwm4 and its embedded composite manager over xgl. Works fine.
And it feels stable?
Arch - It's something refreshing
Offline
If you "just" want the hardware acceleration for your favourite window manager and one of the rest composite managers, you may go ahead and use it so.
Are there any clever commands you use? Or just the necessary ones from the wiki?
.oO Komodo Dave Oo.
Offline
Is anyone else able to explain if && how I can use Xgl with fvwm, and compiz is out of the picture?
I've tried
/usr/bin/Xgl :0 -ac -accel xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer &
DISPLAY=:0 exec fvwmXgl starts fine with that, but fvwm won't start... it doesn't seem to like running on Xgl.
Is it possible???
.oO Komodo Dave Oo.
Offline