sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt to remove global menu. 
And you can set the launcher to appear when the mouse hits the top left corner 
so it is more like gnome-shell.


Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:57:20 -0600
From: holyknightjos...@gmail.com
To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] why compiz in place of mutter

i started using gnome shell on my desktop and unity 2d on my htpc the reason i 
stopped using unity 3d on my desktop is because every now and then while i was 
playing WoW in wine it would cause my framerates to drop to unplayable (i'm 
talking like .5 to 3 fps) levels. 


yea it seems gnome shell and mutter uses about twice as much cpu power as unity 
and compiz but less ram. how they affect performance changes depending on the 
situation. i can play WoW in gnome shell without running into any problems but 
i can't in unity (or couldn't i haven't tried in a few months).  my point is 
that simply looking at numbers is stupid. 

i didn't like either of them to start with but i don't have a problem with 
either of them now.  ok well i have a few problems... i hate global app menus, 
dislike left sided buttons and the way the launcher gets in the way in unity.   
 i don't like the lack of features to the app dock in gnome shell, having my 
app indicators at the bottom left corner and the way those sometimes get in the 
way of things in gnome shell.  i really liked where the dash button was in 
11.04 and i don't like the big ubuntu button on the dock now.  i hate how rigid 
and inflexible the top panel/bar is in both of them and the way i can't auto 
hide either of them.  i should probably mention global app menus again as a 
dislike because those things are annoying oh and it's a pain to get to my Wine 
applications in unity.


they both generally work well enough for me though i think i prefer gnome shell 
over unity because i hate global app menus and the unity launcher gets in my 
way more than gnome shell's app indicators.

i'm not saying i still don't miss my old gnome2 panel setup sometimes but i can 
handle using either unity or gnome shell now... i just wish i could mix and 
match features from both.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@ubuntu.com> wrote:



On 29/01/2012 23:53, supernova wrote:

> maybe it is because I have intel graphics, but I find gnomeshell

> faster then unity, at first and clean installation I mean. Let's hope

> better for the future...



I have two laptops, one of which runs on the Intel GMA 965/X3100, and another

running on Sandy Bridge graphics. I can safely say that under both of these

conditions, in no case is Mutter faster than Unity. It's probably an issue of

perception and bad press floating around, which can possibly stem from Compiz

being that much more customizable than Mutter.



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Kind regards,

Loong Jin




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