Workspace Switcher?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> As to compiz I haven't knowingly turned it on.  About the only
>>> customization I have done is to add a couple of viewports and try the
>>> "extra" visual effects on the desktop.
>>
>> That will do it. The program that provides the visual effects is
>> Compiz. When you turn them on, Compiz replaces the simpler program
>> with no effects, which is called Metacity.
>>
>> Both of them are the programs that draw the "chrome" on windows: the
>> title bars, menu/minimize/maximize/close buttons, the corners&  edges
>> you drag to resize the window, etc.
>>
>
> OK, thanks for the info.  I'm curious, if I were to revert back to the
> simplest visual effects setting would Metacity replace Compiz?

If you pick "no visual effects", yes.

But this does not disable the underlying clever stuff in the graphics
system, as I discovered on my own notebook, whose graphics chip is
just new enough that Compiz does work and just old enough that it's
unusably slow. :¬(

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