Window compositing in LXDE 14.04 [PPC]?

2015-07-09 Thread Fritz Hudnut
Folks: I've been continuing my testing of my min-installed XFCE 14.04 for PPC, and, kind of a mixed bag . . . it's ***almost*** there in terms of a daily frontline system, seems like the kernel figured out how to do suspend . . . but still, glitchy when it comes to dragging windows and th fan

Re: Window compositing in LXDE 14.04 [PPC]?

2015-07-09 Thread Fritz Hudnut
Homes: Thanks for the fast reply . . . I'll check it. Is compton created by hip-hop aficionados??? I could probably drive over and pick it up . . . after traffic hours, whenever that is . . . . LA is all about the traffic . . . . : - ) On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr.

Re: Window compositing in LXDE 14.04 [PPC]?

2015-07-09 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
Compton is great for what you are looking for. See the ppcluddite blog for detail on how to set it up. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 9, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com wrote: Folks: I've been continuing my testing of my min-installed XFCE 14.04 for PPC, and, kind of

Re: Window compositing in LXDE 14.04 [PPC]?

2015-07-09 Thread Fritz Hudnut
HH: Reading the blog report it looks like Compton is CLI based?? Seems like it is as he is showing the various line items to set it up . . . I'd prefer a simple GUI item that I can check or uncheck. Either of those other apps xcompmgr or cairo-compmgr GUI items, or all are CLI?? F On Thu, Jul

Re: Window compositing in LXDE 14.04 [PPC]?

2015-07-09 Thread Brendan Perrine
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 09:54:54 -0700 Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com wrote: HH: Reading the blog report it looks like Compton is CLI based?? Seems like it is as he is showing the various line items to set it up . . . I'd prefer a simple GUI item that I can check or uncheck. Either of

Re: Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-09 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
XFCE compositing works out of the box. Once they get Ubuntu-MATE 15.10 working then you will have more options. On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:20 PM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: I think that actually

Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-09 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:20 PM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: I think that actually compton isn't really CLI based but a grapical application that is configured with a configuration file. I think I remember seeing one or two differnt GUI utilities for compton but I don't

Re: Window compositing in LXDE 14.04 [PPC]?

2015-07-09 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
Compton is just a fork of xcompmgr. If you want compositing in LXDE then you will need to use CLI tools. Maybe if you switched window managers like Metacity, I think lxappearce will let you switch. On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Brendan Perrine walteror...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2015