AIGLX, metacity, nvidia and Xgl

[Mike Russo]

Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Mar 07, 06 09:57:49 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote:
>   
>> David Reveman wrote:
>> I have recently installed Xgl and compiz successfully ( very impressive, 
>> by the way ), but can only run compiz with Gnome. compiz clashes with 
>> enlightenment-0.17 - they both want to manage windows. I went looking 
>> for the old glxcompmgr, but apparently it won't work with later builds 
>> of Xgl ( according to what I've read anyway ).
>>     
>
> Maybe someone produces a stand-alone compositing manager in the future
> with less possible effects. Right now I think nobody is working on that.
>   
You can still run the original xcompmgr with e17 if all you want is
transparency and
menu fade effects. I was doing so successfully for some time until I got
sick of the
 once-a-week crashes that occured with the binary nVidia driver (they
say they improved
stability in 8178 but it's still not the greatest).  You can also run it
with Xgl, although
I don't think it's properly accelerated, and I haven't tried
glxcompmgr.  I know Renderman doesn't
want to add compositing support until e18 but perhaps someone can write
a module for e17?

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