Enabling Compiz by default?

Stewart Adam s.adam at diffingo.com
Fri Aug 10 21:34:26 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 09:01 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: 
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:46:39AM +0200, Joachim Frieben wrote:
> > > They are not bugs - you are turning the 3D engine power planes on. That
> > > costs you a lot of electricity.
> > 
> > Sure! And then, you also remove GL apps/screensavers from Fedora, or  - even better - Mesa/OpenGL altogether .. (%#@&§*)
>  
> 
> 
> If you look through bugzilla there have been bugs lodged several times that
> people would like to be able to select a different screensaver on battery
> (usually the 'none' saver)
> 

Why not let users choose which window manager they would like to use on
their first login? A simple dialog box would do. The user's preferences,
power management and any other problem is solved...

Stewart





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