I think it's somehow just that compiz has not yet been really much configured by default. Or is it that it happens to work with eg. NVIDIA's proprietary driver out-of-the-box?
I'm now typing this with compiz enabled, and found that eg. the gconf compiz/general/allscreen/options/active_plugins was missing several very important things, including "decorator" without which no window borders are even draw. I added a few more, and I now have some fading effects etc. There are a lot of big "pauses" in the rendering, ie. small hangs. I hope Ubuntu can put some effort to have relatively working out-of-the- box functionality, as the Desktop Effects application is available anyway. Using Radeon X800 GTO on an amd64 machine. If I install beryl from unofficial repositories, it works very fluently and without any problems too, so I'd make a conclusion that this really has not that much to do with the drivers (beryl works), but with compiz tweaking (as fedora works also with compiz). -- [feisty] desktop effects problem (ATI) https://launchpad.net/bugs/90184 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
