Compiz and googleearth, tuxkart, torcs, etc

[David Vincent]

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David Fox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:
> 
>> When using compiz I cannot run googleearth, tuxkart, torcs, etc.
>> What should I adjust so that these programs run OK. If I have to remove
> 
> In a terminal, either do a 'metacity --replace' or 'kwin --replace'
> depeding on whether you use gnome or kde. It'll revert to the 2D
> desktop for window manager purposes.
> 
> How does compiz prevent googleearth etc. from running? What video card
> and how much video ram do you have?

On my old ATI Radeon x550 PCIx 256mb card GoogleEarh would choke while
Compiz would work fine.  On a similar machine, same Ubuntu and same
opensource ATI driver but with a Radeon 9200SE 128mb card, both Compiz
and GoogleEarth would work.  I never figured out why the better machine
couldn't run it, I just bought an NVidia card so I could get reliable
hibernate/suspend.  :)

Just an example.

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