On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:00:48PM -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
$ USE_WOBBLY=1 metacity --replace &
- metacity also has an experimental screen magnifier built in. Like
the wobbly windows this is enabled by setting an environment variable - USE_MAGNIFIER:
$ USE_MAGNIFIER=1 metacity --replace &
As a lot of people are having trouble with these awesome effects - are there other effects to play with? Like, how does one enable drop shadows or transparency -- or is it just these two for now? Also, where are these variables set permanently?
Thanks, Sam
- real translucency in gnome-terminal. Enable this by clicking the
"Transparent background" radio box in the "Effects" tab of the termnal profile editor dialog. gnome-terminal may have to be restarted for this to take effect - pkill gnome-terminal should do the trick.
There are a number of known bugs with these packages, so go easy on bugzilla :). Specifically,
- The damage events doesn't always kick in, so sometimes window
contents doesn't update properly. A workaround for this is to switch desktop back and forth.
- The drop shadows look weird on shaped/argb windows, for example
xeyes, the notify bubbles and well, even the rounded metacity corners. The shadow code is due for an overhaul later, so we're not going to patch over this issue in the short term.
- Perfomance for in-window updates isn't always great. We're
currently doing too much work when updating textures from pixmaps. It's still possible to optimize this further with the current setup, and longer term the memory architecture in the X server and DRI stack will see some changes that will allow us to optimize this further.
Have fun, Kristian
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