AIGLX packages for FC5 (and rawhide)
Sam Folk-Williams
sfolkwil at redhat.com
Fri Apr 21 16:51:09 UTC 2006
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:00:48PM -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>
> $ USE_WOBBLY=1 metacity --replace &
>
> - metacity also has an experimental screen magnifier built in. Like
> the wobbly windows this is enabled by setting an environment variable -
> USE_MAGNIFIER:
>
> $ USE_MAGNIFIER=1 metacity --replace &
>
As a lot of people are having trouble with these awesome effects - are there
other effects to play with? Like, how does one enable drop shadows or
transparency -- or is it just these two for now? Also, where are these
variables set permanently?
Thanks,
Sam
> - real translucency in gnome-terminal. Enable this by clicking the
> "Transparent background" radio box in the "Effects" tab of the termnal
> profile editor dialog. gnome-terminal may have to be restarted for this
> to take effect - pkill gnome-terminal should do the trick.
>
> There are a number of known bugs with these packages, so go easy on
> bugzilla :). Specifically,
>
> - The damage events doesn't always kick in, so sometimes window
> contents doesn't update properly. A workaround for this is to switch
> desktop back and forth.
>
> - The drop shadows look weird on shaped/argb windows, for example
> xeyes, the notify bubbles and well, even the rounded metacity corners.
> The shadow code is due for an overhaul later, so we're not going to
> patch over this issue in the short term.
>
> - Perfomance for in-window updates isn't always great. We're
> currently doing too much work when updating textures from pixmaps. It's
> still possible to optimize this further with the current setup, and
> longer term the memory architecture in the X server and DRI stack will
> see some changes that will allow us to optimize this further.
>
> Have fun,
> Kristian
>
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