Compositor in GDM

Dan Winship dwinship at redhat.com
Wed Mar 26 21:18:19 UTC 2008


Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> New GDM's feature (from wiki):
> "a compositor on the login screen, for nice graphical effects"
> 
> I don't think this may be a good idea... openSUSE had this, and the
> compiz ran by GDM never get killed...

At any rate, IIRC, the reason openSUSE runs compiz over gdm isn't
because there's a huge need for login-screen bling, it's because Xgl
assumes that compiz is always there to double-buffer its drawing for it,
and so if compiz *isn't* there, you see ugly visual artifacts in some
situations. But Xorg wouldn't have this problem.

-- Dan




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