Removing shadows underneath windows when using xcompmgr

Marius Gedminas marius at gedmin.as
Thu Mar 12 23:54:45 PDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:26:42PM -0400, Joel Feiner wrote:
> I hate to say it, but it is the only usable compositing manager for me. 
>    Compiz is close, but still is laggy in places (scrolling especially), 
> not to mention unstable and hard to configure.  Don't even get me 
> started on KDE 4's KWin, because half the time, its compositing doesn't 
> even work, to say nothing of performance (and really, there's not much 
> to say about its performance: it just isn't there).  If you have another 
> suggestion, I am open to hear it.

There are two more compositing managers that I've heard of: Metacity and
whatever XFCE uses.

I cannot say anything about their relative performance.

Marius Gedminas
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