Hey folks,<br><br>Found out about a nifty trick this morning, that could benefit lots of folks who have machines with either no-3d acceleration, or for one reason or another cannot run 3d accelerated drivers (dislike non-free drivers, lack of support for xrandr1.2 etc). If you're using GNOME, Metacity has some of the compositing manager features built into it that it can offload to the CPU. This doesn't give you everything, much of the glitz you see with composited desktops is the result of compiz plugins, but it does give some degree of transparent windows, shaped windows, shadows on windows, lets you run avant window navagator, previews in alt-tab, etc.<br>
<br>Anyway, run gconf-editor, go to apps->metacity->general and check the box to activate the compositing manager.<br><br>Shameless stolen from: <a href="http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/11/14/metacity-compositing-effects-in-ubuntu-810/">http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/11/14/metacity-compositing-effects-in-ubuntu-810/</a><br>
<br>A nice side effect is that remote windows now don't need to be redrawn when you move stuff over them, reducing network load too.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" size="2">Patrick Wagstrom</font><br>
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