T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

[Evan]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:31 PM, LD 'Gus' Landis <ldlandis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  Hard hang on ThinkPad T41 on Karmic Koala.  Probably other "older"
>  systems.
>
>  The current default "Change Desktop Background"->"Visual Effects"
>  in Karmic is "Normal".
>
>  On my ThinkPad T41, the Karmic version overwhelms the machine
>  and causes a hard hang.  I was able to resolve this on three separate
>  machines, and accidentally discovered it when I had one machine
>  that worked (two failed).
>
>  I was able to get past this by immediately (after login) change the
>  "Visual Effects" to "None".
>

In theory Ubuntu should detect if the hardware is capable, and enable or
disable visual effects accordingly.
If it fails to correctly detect this on you hardware, then this is a bug,
and should be filed appropriately.
Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs


>  So far, enabling compiz on T41 with Karmic causes hard hang.
>  Enabling metacity causes unusably slow response (of Firefox for
>  sure).
>
>  It seems that disabling all of compiz and metacity is necessary
>  for "older" machines.
>

I'm not sure what you mean here. Compiz is the 3D window manager requiring
advanced graphics cards ("Normal" and "Extra" settings).
Metacity is a 2D window manager, ("None" setting) that should work
practically anywhere.
If you're running a graphical environment at all then you're likely running
Metacity still, unless you manually switched to an alternative like Fluxbox
or IceWM.

All the best,
Evan
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