[compiz] compiz 0.3.6 in fedora rawhide

[David Reveman]

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 08:58 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:35 -0500, Timothy Vismor wrote:
> > On 1/18/07, Thomas J. Baker <tjb at unh.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I rebuilt this for FC6 and things seem to work fine. It's nice to
> > > finally have xinerama support again. Have you considered a FC6 release?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > tjb
> > > --
> > >
> > That's interesting. In rawhide, I got a dialog saying "Desktop effects
> > does not work for Xinerama" when I tried to turn compiz back on using
> > System>Preferences>Desktop Effects.
> 
> It works for me pretty well. I saved my old gconf settings and unset all
> of compiz, then set my custom settings up again. Took a while to get the
> active plugins set correctly as the default value is pretty minimal.
> Seems to work fine so far. Maximizing a window does so only to the
> current head.
> 
> The only slightly strange thing is that if I have my left screen full of
> windows and launch another app from the panel or desktop on the left
> screen, the window will appear on the left even though the right screen
> is empty. In that sense, compiz almost treats the two heads as separate
> as far as initial placement goes. Is this a bug or a feature or a side
> effect of the Nvidia binary drivers?

It's just a different way of placing windows. The placement plugin
should probably be updated to place windows as metacity.

-David