metacity

[Felix Jodoin]

Really? That's really weird, I have a rev. c (I think, purple 
clamshell, 333mhz, 4mb video) and it runs great! Of course, saying 
that, I don't think it's that my computer is a supercomputer, it can't 
even run the Neverwinter Nights beta, Unreal Tournament 2003, or 
Planeshift!
-AliasN

On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 07:35  PM, Greg Hamilton wrote:

> I agree, Metacity does seem to look better. Obviously the choice of 
> theme would make a huge difference. Also, the default font for window 
> titles is an ugly fixed pitch font in Sawfish and a much nicer 
> anti-aliased scalable font in Metacity.
>
> The speed difference is negligible and probably not noticeable on 
> faster hardware. I'm running it on a 500Mhz iBook. It doesn't do 
> anything in a hurry. I get a lot of shearing and trails and the like 
> when resizing and moving windows. It's not quite as bad with Sawfish. 
> This may reflect poorly configured X. I'm not sure if hardware 
> acceleration is being used or even if the video driver supports it, 
> though the YDL site suggests that it should.
>
> I want to know how to configure Metacity beyond the limits of the 
> current GUI config tools. I usually get around all the slow GUI 
> problems by not displaying window contents when moving/resizing and 
> turning off unnecessary animations. One of the main things I didn't 
> like about running OSX on the iBook was the sluggishness of the GUI 
> and the lack of options for switching off the visual effects.
>
> Anyway, in the absence of a project home page and any obvious 
> documentation/mailing lists/newsgroups/etc. I've downloaded the 
> Metacity source and I think I'll have a read over the weekend and see 
> what I can see. I've been reading up on GTK+/Gnome app development and 
> tinkering about with Glade. A really good Metacity configurator might 
> make an interesting little project as an introduction to Gnome app 
> development.
>
> Greg
>
> On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 12:15  PM, Felix Jodoin wrote:
>
>> Well, this isn't really much of a technical opinion, and I don't want 
>> to
>> start a flame war over this, but I think metacity looks a lot nicer,
>> there are more themes available for it (THIS IS ALL MY OPINION,
>> CONTRIDICT ME AT WILL!) and I'm not really sure why it would be 
>> slower.
>> It's also easier to make themes and install them (Trust me, I had
>> sawfish once and the stories I could tell...).
>> -AliasN
>>
>> -This is just my opinion, don't take it personally
>
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