Dirk Petry wrote:
> Anyway, actually I need to get some work done and having compiz
> working doesn't really seem to improve my productivity at the
> moment.
> I think I will wait until they integrated it better with KDE.
>
You are correct. I usually don't care what WM I'm running as long as it
is stable, reasonably fast, and allows me to do what I need to do. But I
must say, compiz will spoil you.
Beyond the ability to simply grab the desktop and spin the cube, there
are several other utilities that allow for greater visual orientation of
your workspace. "scale" and "shift switcher" are two enhancements that
really help. They are not found on any other desktop I've tried and they
allow a visual of what is in each window during task switching or window
selection.
Don't get me wrong, I can deal with overlapping windows on multiple
desktops using the taskbar or alt+tab to get to what you want. But, the
large additional amount of additional visual data that compiz provides
allowing you to see what is in each open widow (updated in real
time).... will spoil you.
Just start top in a console and invoke scale with "alt+shift+up arrow"
to see what is going on, you'll see.
To compiz's credit, in a lot of ways it does offer a "whole new way of
doing things" that "make sense." It puts vista to shame.
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