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 > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- ➧ Sam Folk-Williams, RHCE ➧ Red Hat Global Support Services ➧ Phone: 919/754-4558 ➧ Cell: 919/943-9623 ➧ Fax: 919/754-3708 ➧ GPG ID: 1B0D46BA -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
