compiz or metacity+composite

[Louis Garcia]

What are the differences between compiz and metacity? I would like to
try the desktop bling on my box which has a radeon 9250. Metacity has a
composite manager, can I just enable that or is compiz better?

-Thanks

[Sam Folk-Williams]

On 08/23/06 16:05 -0400 Louis Garcia II wrote:
>  What are the differences between compiz and metacity? I would like
> to
>  try the desktop bling on my box which has a radeon 9250. Metacity has a
>  composite manager, can I just enable that or is compiz better? 
You'll need to
use compiz. If you install the latest version for development
you can enable it just by System-->Prefs-->More Prefs-->Desktop Effects.

Sam

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[Émeric Maschino]

Hi,

>  What are the differences between compiz and metacity? I would like
> to
>  try the desktop bling on my box which has a radeon 9250. Metacity has a
>  composite manager, can I just enable that or is compiz better? 
I'm also a little lost. What really happens when you install compiz and
select the Desktop effects in the Advanced preferences? Is metacity
disabled? In this case, should the metacity package be uninstalled? On
the other hand, what's the difference with enabling the metacity
composite extension without installing compiz?

Cheers,

	Émeric

[Joachim Frieben]

Current "metacity" packages have the compositor functionality disabled.
Right now, you cannot enable compositor features in "metacity" without
rebuilding it. When you select "desktop effects", "metacity" gets
replaced
by "compiz" and vice versa.

>  I'm also a little lost. What really happens when you install compiz and
>  select the Desktop effects in the Advanced preferences? Is metacity
>  disabled? In this case, should the metacity package be uninstalled? On
>  the other hand, what's the difference with enabling the metacity
>  composite extension without installing compiz?
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  	Emeric
>

[Émeric Maschino]

>  Current "metacity" packages have the compositor
> functionality disabled.
>  Right now, you cannot enable compositor features in "metacity" without
>  rebuilding it. 
Can't you enable the compositing features in metacity in CLI with

gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool
true

and

Section "Extensions"
 Option "Composite"
EndSection

in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as documented on the AiglxOnFedora Wiki
page?

>  When you select "desktop effects", "metacity"
> gets replaced
>  by "compiz" and vice versa. 
What are the plans for the future: enable the compositing features of
metacity or replace metacity with compiz? BTW, what will happen when
both compiz and metacity with composite features enabled are installed
on a system?

Cheers,

	Émeric

[Joachim Frieben]

>  Can't you enable the compositing features in metacity in CLI
> with
>
>  gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool
>  true
>
>  and
>
>  Section "Extensions"
>  Option "Composite"
>  EndSection
>
>  in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as documented on the AiglxOnFedora Wiki
>  page? 
No, you can't. As I said: "metacity" is built -without- compositor
functionality. Setting the "gconf" does not change anything.

>  BTW, what will happen when both compiz and metacity with composite
>  features enabled are installed on a system?
>  
You will simply have 2 compositing window managers between which you switch
by means of activating "desktop effects". Options that you can checkmark of
course only apply to "compiz". "metacity" compositing effects are not
supported in the user interface.
Btw, your questions had been discussed exhaustively earlier this month in
thread "Wither bling?" at:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00362.html

[Émeric Maschino]

Le jeudi 24 août 2006 à 12:32 +0200, Joachim Frieben a écrit :
>  Btw, your questions had been discussed exhaustively earlier this
> month
>  in thread "Wither bling?" at:
>  
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00362.html

Thank you for your explanations and this pointer.

	Émeric