[ot] Xgl and Compiz WM

[Harold Aling]

Here he is again...

I just installed Xgl and Compriz using these instructions: 
http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/blog/archives/574-Xgl-and-Compiz.html

It looks and feels pretty darn cool!

Besides that Nvidia's twinview stopped working, I have a problem with 
XFWM4...

Before enabling Compriz, I had to kill XFWM4. After Compriz is loaded, 
XFWM4 will not start: ** (xfwm4:23121): WARNING **: Another Window 
Manager is already running

Now I don't have decorated windows anymore...

In the instructions there was a mention of gnome having a separate 
binary for the window  decorator (gnome-window-decorator). Can this also 
be accomplished with XFWM4?


Thanx,

Harold.



Harold Aling wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>> Harold Aling wrote:
>>   
>>> Yeah, another really offtopic topic!
>>>
>>> Anybody seen this already? 
>>> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2006/Feb-07-1.html (especially the videos!)
>>>
>>> Is XFWM4 going to hop on the Xgl train? (OpenGL based window drawing)
>>>     
>> How should xfwm4 "hop on the Xgl train"? It will happily run on Xgl, so
>> it's already "on that train".
>>   
> Ah, now I get it... I've read some articles about Xgl and Compriz and 
> they all talk about them being a window manager with a compositor. But 
> this is just an extra layer between your own composite enabled WM 
> (XFWM4 in my case) and the X server.
>
> Although I usually disable all motion effects when working on Windows, 
> it would be pretty cool to see this in action... Hardware accelerated 
> window drawing may even speed things up a little...
>>> -H-
>>>     
>> Benedikt
> -H2-
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