Kevin Brown wrote: > Brice Goglin wrote: >> Unfortunately, compiz is not part of Gnome, so I don't think we can >> expect it to look as well integrated in Gnome stuff as Metacity or so. >> You might want to look at compiz-fusion anyway, since this is where >> actual development is done now, and I don't expect many improvement in >> the plain compiz in the near future regarding these problems. > > I didn't see any Debian packages for that, but I'll try it when they > appear...
They are not packaged yes, maybe not even released. I don't know how hard it is to build them. > The cube effect is cool and gimmicky based on the videos I've seen (I > haven't been able to get it to work at all myself), Well, what doesn't work? If you have hsize > 1, what happens when you try to move a window to the right of your screen? or if you press ctrl-alt-left/right? It should rotate. > but doesn't look to be as clean and direct as the workspace switcher, > and doesn't show you at a glance what your window layout across your > workspaces (whether they're separate or not) looks like. You should just use ctrl-alt-bottom to see all faces of the cube at once and then left/right to switch between them. It's much nicer than the workspace switcher since it's much bigger and you can still see the (reduced) contents of the windows. > So from a strict usability standpoint, the workspace switcher looks > like a better way to go, in my opinion. Still, I don't see why use compiz then :) Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]