Sorry -- I figured this out. The drop shadows should just be there if it's working... I'm at the point where with wobbly it's the blue screen, without wobbly the composite works but X eats up a lot of cpu, everything drags, and the colors get sort of weird.... this is the radeon 7000 in a thinkpad t42 Sam On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:51:09PM -0400, Sam Folk-Williams wrote: > 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 -- ➧ 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
