Does metacity compositor use acceleration?

Jerone Young jerone at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 21:13:52 UTC 2008


I'm curious on how do you cut on compositing in metacity. Would love
to use it. Would much rather use it then Compiz.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Andreas Schildbach
<andreas at schildbach.de> 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
>
>
>
>
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