On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Dmitry Shachnev <mity...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The idea of having two different sessions (with and without compositing) > sounds nice. Alberts, do you think this is something that could be done > upstream? (I.e. we'll need to clone the desktop and session files). > Just because metacity --compostite vs. metacity --no-composite? No. He wrote: > For LTSP users, I'll document how to create a > /usr/local/bin/metacity wrapper that launches `metacity --no-composite`. > Probably way easier is to document, to execute in terminal: gsettings set org.gnome.metacity compositing-manager false I don't want even tell that non-composited case is supported... There is no transparency - we can not have background + nautilus desktop window. It looks broken and there is no easy fix. And sooner or latter ubuntu will stop patching background back in nautilus. Compiz is *not* a replacement for Metacity's compositing mode. Actually > Compiz is very broken with GNOME Flashback: there is no Alt+right click > to open panel preferences, there are issues with window decorations, > etc. Actually I was even thinking of disabling Compiz session for Xenial > because of these issues. > I hope that compiz will get support for _GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS, then there will be no issues with window decorations. Alt+right click? Super+Alt+right click... Anyway I do not plan to drop compiz session at least yet. Otherwise why I did bother replacing libmetacity-private with libmetacity? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1565640 Title: Set compositing-manager=false by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/1565640/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
