Richard Fish ha scritto:
Yeah, I'm not a fan of Xgl either, but I am of AIGLX, and I was under
the impression that the open source radeon driver had good support for
AIGLX. I'm using nvidia, so I had to wait for the 9xxx driver release
before I could use it... :-(
I was under the impression AIGLX was dying in favour of Xgl. Well, I'll
do my research :)
You can disable most of that of course if you want. If all you want
is shadows and transparencies, you can configure just those plugins.
Ok. I once thought that the trend was with Composite taking care of
shadows and transparences, while Xgl/AIGLX were about 3d-eye candy, but
it would have made little sense indeed.
I find the task switcher that displays live images of the windows, and
the scale effect (move the cursor to a corner of the screen and all
windows shrink and tile on the screen, and then you click on the one
you want to switch to) to be the most useful,
Yes, an Exposè-like thing would be really useful. Is it *fast*?
although I could watch
my windows wobble and jiggle all day!
lol!
For simple things like shadows and transparency, that could be done
independently of the window manager. But for more complicated
effects, like the task switcher, or being able to animate window
operations, or flash windows that want attention, or the desktop cube
thingy, you need tighter integration with the window manager.
Sigh. I see. I wonder if/when common WMs/DEs will support these things
out of the box (KDE, XFCE and Fluxbox are my favourites :) )
m.
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