T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

[Evan]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:29 PM, LD 'Gus' Landis <ldlandis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Evan,
>
>  I will file a bug report... Thanks for the pointer.
>
>  You are correct.. I am running "/usr/bin/metacity --replace"
>  and getting splendid response on my machine (with "Visual
>  Effects" = "None".
>
>  To get the bad performance experienced, gconf-editor->
>  apps->metacity select compositing_manager ON.  Running
>  with that OFF, things are great.
>

I'd completely forgotten about that.
Metacity is in the process of adding a 3D option (like compiz) so that you
can do 2D or 3D without switching to compiz.
Metacity-3D, like compiz, requires a decent graphics card, and presumably
that gconf switch lets you turn it on at the moment (compositing ~= 3D).

 FWIW, under Intrepid/Jaunty, compiz effects worked but
>  with karmic, it seems to push the capabilities a bit too hard,
>  and ends up freezing.
>
>  NOTE: When karmic+compiz fails, what happens when I
>  try starting Firefox (for example), a trapezoid shape (small
>  side on bottom) is slightly visible (like the frame is flipping
>  down to vertical) but all (mouse/keyboard have no effect on
>  the cursor or selection of virtual terminal ctl-alt-F#). Only
>  a power down works.
>

If it worked in Intrepid/Jaunty then it should probably work in Karmic -- I
don't think there were any major changes to compiz this release, though I
wouldn't quote me on that.
This means it may not actually be a bug in the auto-detection.
It may simply be that there is something wrong with the driver for your card
that isn't exposing its full capabilities properly.

If you've already filed a bug against the auto-detection then it's worth
raising this possibility in a comment at least.
Also, please post a link to the bug here, as any further discussion should
probably happen in the bug rather than on this list.

All the best,
Evan
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