On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:46 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > please document how to enable compositing in metacity 2.22, e.g. in > README.Debian. > > I've found the following one-liner for this purpose on the www: > > gconftool-2 -s --type bool /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager true > > Thank you very much!
Hi, I'm attaching a first try at documenting this in README.Debian. Any improvements or suggestions are welcome. I don't know if we need to go into greater detail on how to enable the composite extension, I think it's loaded by default now? It might also be a good idea to mention using EXA instead of XAA as it can make a huge difference in performance. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
Metacity Compositor =================== Version 2.22 of Metacity includes a simple compositor. It's only intended to add a set of non-customisable simple effects. Currently these include a drop-shadow around windows, and thumbnail previews in the window switcher dialog. Contrary to Compiz, the Metacity compositor uses the XRender extension to draw to the screen. This means that no 3D acceleration is needed. This should in theory make it suitable to run on a larger selection of hardware, but only if your video driver implements sufficient Render performance. The compositor can be enabled on the fly by setting the gconf key /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager to true by using gconf-editor or gconftool. Before enabling the compositor, you need to make sure your X server configuration has the composite extension loaded and enabled.
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