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Re: Compiz
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Fri Mar 13 18:16:53 2009
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:15:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Michael Khusid <mkhusid@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Michael Khusid wrote:
> Just noticed that the drivers for the public workstation video cards support
> 3D acceleration. Took me less than 5 minutes to get compiz running and the
> desktop cube spinning. Hello wobbly windows :)
>
> I don't know if it should be the default behavior, but it surely looks cooler
> than plain ole' Athena 9.
We've made Compiz not the default on the beta, because there's a bug
involving Compiz, zwgc, and the screensaver that causes your windows to be
visible if you receive a zephyr.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/336932
Compiz works just fine if you disable zwgc (or are okay with the privacy
issue), and don't have other applets like IM clients that can create
windows when you're running the screen saver. Hopefully by the summer
release we will have figured this out, and it will be the default again.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
