Public bug reported: metacity in hardy (i386) has compisting manager support can be enabled via gconf. I've tried this on nvidia and ATI card as well (nvida and fglrx restricted drivers). The performance render this unusable on both machines (eg audio/video skips even with mplayer to play video niced to level -10, XVideo seems to be jerky etc). However turning compositing manager off has some side effects: on both machines only a small "window" at the center of the screen can be seen from the screen and machines locks up after CTRL-ALT-backspace (since I can't logout otherwise). After reboot with 'sysreq magic key combo', I've discovered, that at least on the machine with ATI card the 'fade off' effect before activating the screensaver becomes where strange: it startes to blink some parts of the screen, then a little delay, and then the screensaver itself. On nvidia everything works without compositing manager however it would be very usefull but it seems to be unusable for daily usage. If this support is not designed to be used widely, sorry for this bug report.
** Affects: metacity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [hardy] metacity usability problems with and without composite support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for metacity in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs