AIGLX, metacity, nvidia and Xgl

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:54:37 -0500 Mike Russo <miker at readq.com> babbled:

> 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?

as of yesterday e17 is "composite" ready - ie argb windows composite properly - but it has and will have no built-in composite manager until likely e18 or so.

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