Bill Shannon wrote: > 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. http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11672 -[gnome2.28] cannot change number of workspaces when running compiz Workaround:-
It is possible to change the number of workspaces in gconf-editor /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/hsize. >>> >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
