Apparently #2 and #4 are related. While playing around with the settings for Compiz I noticed that the Front key wasn't working. I turned off all the effects and now the Front key works again and the Workspace Switcher displays properly. Just their way of telling me to stop wasting my time with visual effects, I guess.
If anyone knows about #1 or #3, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Bill Shannon wrote on 11/16/09 12:43 PM: > I just upgrade from snv_111 to snv_127 and ran into a few issues: > > 1. When booting I got a bunch of complaints from inetd of the form > "Failed to update state of instance" and "Failed to get instance for" > referencing svc:/application/x11/xfs (I think). And indeed I have > no such service. Is this a bug? Is something misconfigured on my > system? > > 2. The Workspace Switcher panel app is broken in several ways: > > a. If I tell it to display workspaces in two rows, I get one row > with my 4 workspaces and one row with no workspaces. > > b. The preferences dialog doesn't allow me to choose the number > of workspaces. > > In the past I've been able to work around the first issue by > removing the panel app and adding it back, but that no longer works. > If this is not a known bug, I'll file it. > > 3. Clearly something has changed in the default fonts. The fixed width > font is much "crisper". I think that's mostly a feature. The only > problem I've seen is that in the letters "TH" the "T" is touching the > "H", and seems to be one pixel too far to the right. Is that a known > bug? Compare "HTH" with "HIH" where the "I" seems to be too far to the > left. Are we working with an even number of pixels here, which is why > this can never be just right? It wasn't a problem with the fonts in > snv_111, which overall seemed to be the same size as the fonts in > snv_127. > > 4. I'm now getting "animations" when opening and closing windows, changing > desktops, etc. I haven't decided yet whether that's a feature or just > annoying. :-) I guess I need to spend some time with the Compiz > dialog to figure out what all the options are. Endless ways to avoid > doing work!
