how to test compiz-manager

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 2 14:01:05 UTC 2007


Per Bothner wrote:
> So that reminds me: Is "desktop effects" supposed to work for
> Intel 945GM?
> 
> I do System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> Desktop Effects
> and click on Enable Desktop Effects.  The Gnome window manager goes
> away, and then after a while it come back with an very uninformative
> error message "Desktop effects could not be enabled".
> 
> This *used* to work, earlier in the F8 process.  (With one caveat:
> it wouldn't work if I had NetBeans running.)  However, it hasn't worked
> for a while now.
> 
> Obviously not a big deal, and I'm not sure I'd want to enable the
> effects most of the time anyway, but they were certainly cute.

It is supposed to work. Otherwise file a bug report against Compiz in 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com. Make sure you have all the updates first.

Rahul




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