Now that I've had a chance to catch up with my email, I see that #3 is a known issue.
Bill Shannon wrote on 11/16/09 01:01 PM: > Apparently #2 and #4 are related. While playing around with the > settings for Compiz I noticed that the Front key wasn't working. > I turned off all the effects and now the Front key works again > and the Workspace Switcher displays properly. Just their way of > telling me to stop wasting my time with visual effects, I guess. > > If anyone knows about #1 or #3, I'd appreciate it. > > Thanks. > > > Bill Shannon wrote on 11/16/09 12:43 PM: >> I just upgrade from snv_111 to snv_127 and ran into a few issues: >> >> 1. When booting I got a bunch of complaints from inetd of the form >> "Failed to update state of instance" and "Failed to get instance for" >> referencing svc:/application/x11/xfs (I think). And indeed I have >> no such service. Is this a bug? Is something misconfigured on my >> system? >> >> 2. The Workspace Switcher panel app is broken in several ways: >> >> a. If I tell it to display workspaces in two rows, I get one row >> with my 4 workspaces and one row with no workspaces. >> >> b. The preferences dialog doesn't allow me to choose the number >> of workspaces. >> >> In the past I've been able to work around the first issue by >> removing the panel app and adding it back, but that no longer works. >> If this is not a known bug, I'll file it. >> >> 3. Clearly something has changed in the default fonts. The fixed width >> font is much "crisper". I think that's mostly a feature. The only >> problem I've seen is that in the letters "TH" the "T" is touching the >> "H", and seems to be one pixel too far to the right. Is that a known >> bug? Compare "HTH" with "HIH" where the "I" seems to be too far to >> the >> left. Are we working with an even number of pixels here, which is why >> this can never be just right? It wasn't a problem with the fonts in >> snv_111, which overall seemed to be the same size as the fonts in >> snv_127. >> >> 4. I'm now getting "animations" when opening and closing windows, >> changing >> desktops, etc. I haven't decided yet whether that's a feature or just >> annoying. :-) I guess I need to spend some time with the Compiz >> dialog to figure out what all the options are. Endless ways to avoid >> doing work! > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
