On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chombee wrote: > > > Does the compositor that you can enable in metacity in hardy use 3D > acceleration? > > Yes, it does. > > > > I like it better than compiz (the alt-tab isn't broken for one thing) but > it > > seems slow. > > Actually, on my i915GMS Metacity compositing is much faster than Compiz. > And a lot less buggy. Maybe "Normal" visual effects (Appearance > Preferences) should use Metacity rather than Compiz? > > Regards, > > Andreas
Wasn't it the plan to make Metacity obsolete by making a fallback for Compiz that doesn't use the graphics card for compositing? That would make a switch very smooth. Use cases would be battery use, or people that don't have a graphics card. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
