On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:47:03AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Tom Russo wrote: > > > This *really* needs to be in the FAQ and README. > > This bit about compiz could probably go in the Xastir Manual wiki > page under a new "Problems" chapter or some-such too.
We have a FAQ in the source tree, and it's installed by "make install", the info should be there, too. > Tom: If you don't mind I'll add some of your words below to a few > docs using the Johnny Appleseed approach (sprinkling it liberally > everywhere). > > > > The issue is the interaction between Motif and compiz, which in some > > versions > > of Ubuntu is turned on and off with a "Desktop Effects" menu item. They > > made > > the default "on" several releases ago. Compiz is what enables eye-candy > > effects like animated window opening/closing, 3-d effects, and so forth. I > > don't know if there is any solution other than turning off those effects. > > Does anyone know if this is a Gnome window manager specific problem? > Can it happen in KDE or in other window managers as well? I know it > doesn't happen in FVWM2... Do you run compiz with fvwm2? I don't think that works. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
