On 3/30/06, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > After playing with the Kororaa Xgl Live CD, then with Xorg 7 entering > ebuild testing, > I decided to give Xgl a try.
Neat-o. Is it in the ~x86 area? > The xorg 7 upgrade went extremely smooth. Big THANK YOU to those > responsible! > > The wiki instructions for installing Xgl worked too. I'm extremely interested in Xgl. I didn't know it was hanging around Gentoo. Can you send me the link? > Then I discovered what gnome-window-decorator does in KDE. Not pretty. :-( > I figured I could live: > * with old fashioned decorations, > * without my background image, > * with my panel stretching across both monitors, > * with windows opening centered on the desktop vs on a display, > * with some brain dead right mouse desktop popup menu. Can you try and get me some more detailed info? I'm a information gatherer for the Xgl project. I'm supposed to be ensuring that it has perfect integration with KDE. > But I couldn't live with a dead X the next morning. So bye-bye Xgl. Even more interesting... Could you get some more info for me there too? Perhaps a few clips from the log file? > OK, off to the net to see what I could find, which distilled down to use > gnome. > Next gen KDE should have similar features. > > Well, I've never really gave gnome a try, so maybe it's not as bad as it > looks. :-) It's not *bad,* but I find it incredibly bland. It's useable, though I can't say it's much more... > Installed gnome. Weee... have fun? > Now what I'd really like is to be able to switch between X+KDE and Xgl+gnome > sessions. I don't really see how to do this with one display manager. > Not sure > how to configure to run multiple display managers. Currently I use xdm > to run > kdm. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > Roy > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- ========== GCv3.12 ========== GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y ========= END GCv3.12 ======== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list