On 3/30/06, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> After playing with the Kororaa Xgl Live CD, then with Xorg 7 entering
> ebuild testing,
> I decided to give Xgl a try.
Neat-o. Is it in the ~x86 area?
> The xorg 7 upgrade went extremely smooth. Big THANK YOU to those
> responsible!
>
> The wiki instructions for installing Xgl worked too.
I'm extremely interested in Xgl. I didn't know it was hanging around
Gentoo. Can you send me the link?
> Then I discovered what gnome-window-decorator does in KDE. Not pretty. :-(
> I figured I could live:
> * with old fashioned decorations,
> * without my background image,
> * with my panel stretching across both monitors,
> * with windows opening centered on the desktop vs on a display,
> * with some brain dead right mouse desktop popup menu.
Can you try and get me some more detailed info? I'm a information
gatherer for the Xgl project. I'm supposed to be ensuring that it has
perfect integration with KDE.
> But I couldn't live with a dead X the next morning. So bye-bye Xgl.
Even more interesting... Could you get some more info for me there
too? Perhaps a few clips from the log file?
> OK, off to the net to see what I could find, which distilled down to use
> gnome.
> Next gen KDE should have similar features.
>
> Well, I've never really gave gnome a try, so maybe it's not as bad as it
> looks. :-)
It's not *bad,* but I find it incredibly bland. It's useable, though
I can't say it's much more...
> Installed gnome.
Weee... have fun?
> Now what I'd really like is to be able to switch between X+KDE and Xgl+gnome
> sessions. I don't really see how to do this with one display manager.
> Not sure
> how to configure to run multiple display managers. Currently I use xdm
> to run
> kdm.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Roy
>
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