Metacity Composite Manager

[trancaothai]

your computer is extremely slow :(

[keltik75]

of course it was ... a 1.5Ghz Intel Centrino with 512Mb of RAM ;-)

[hyperscreenager]

can you describe step-by-step what you modify from Gconf? Please!

[keltik75]

search for 'metacity' under the app section of gconf-editor. In its general configuration you will find the option to enable or disable the composite manager.

you can do the job from a terminal too:

$ gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compos­iting_manager' --type bool true

cheers

[hyperscreenager]

thanks, but you have some effects that i haven't! Are you using an instable package?

[keltik75]

absolutely not. In this video you can see a very old version of metacity (2.18.5). I simply recompiled the package shipped by Debian, which hadn't compositing compiled by default.

There is no other trick in the video.

[hyperscreenager]

In my ubuntu menus doesn't appear smooth like yours, so i thought you had a different version of metacity...whatever! Thanks

[balcis]

me, too. it's not smooth about the menus?

[tretle]

I have been using metacity compositing for along time now and it doesnt add transparency to the gnome panel menu at all.

[tretle]

how did you get the gnome menu slab to be transparent?

[keltik75]

metacity composite manager does the job: its the title of the video ;-)

[ramuster]

Could have shown capabilities quicker, but useful video.

[pstj]

I have a question, which branch is this as shown in the video, I have trunk and I have gnome-2-22 and neether if them uses openGL for acceleration, on desktop without direct rendering it performs the same and it is not linked to the GL libraries. Can you please explain?

[ced117fr]

Gnome rox <3