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tseug

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Registered: 2010-11-03

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No desktop effects on system76 Lemur UltraThin?

Hello,

I was just curious how I'd go about enabling these? I can't seem to get it to work/figure it out from what I've read on the wiki. I'm using the xf86-video-intel package, and have supposedly configured it to enable compositing, but still no dice. Any ideas?

tseug

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Registered: 2010-11-03

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Re: No desktop effects on system76 Lemur UltraThin?

I'm not sure if this is related or not, but the buttons in my gnome install look like something straight out of Windows XP. Could these issues potentially be related?

ngoonee

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Re: No desktop effects on system76 Lemur UltraThin?

You're using Ubuntu terminology. What they call 'desktop effects' is actually compiz. Go search for compiz in our wiki.

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tseug

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Re: No desktop effects on system76 Lemur UltraThin?

Is compiz responsible for compositing as well, then?

Awebb

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Re: No desktop effects on system76 Lemur UltraThin?

Is compiz responsible for compositing as well, then?

In Ubuntu, it is. Other methods to obtain composting are Metacity, xcompmgr, the KDE WM, the XFCE WM. And others.

PS: Please consider using the edit button next time.

tseug

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Registered: 2010-11-03

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Re: No desktop effects on system76 Lemur UltraThin?

Is compiz responsible for compositing as well, then?

In Ubuntu, it is. Other methods to obtain composting are Metacity, xcompmgr, the KDE WM, the XFCE WM. And others.

PS: Please consider using the edit button next time.

So, what should I be using for compositing then since I'm not using Ubuntu but am using Gnome?

lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: No desktop effects on system76 Lemur UltraThin?

Gnome by default uses Metacity, which allegedly has some compositing support (shadows, transparency, etc.).

If you want what Ubuntu has, with wobbly windows, thumbnails and whatnot, use Compiz in place of Metacity. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compiz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing_window_manager

Last edited by lucke (2010-11-11 17:59:29)