I've been steadfastly using WindowMaker in Gnome because I hate Metacity. But I heard that FC6 would support compiz, or the forked community project/program Beryl, So I installed it from the RPM repository here: [beryl] name=Beryl for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://wilsonet.com/packages/beryl/fc$releasever-$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 I found that listed in the fedora bugzilla, but can't find it again! Beryl is growing out of Compiz (from Novell company) and it is the thing formerly known as compiz-quinnstorm. And it is very awesome in many ways. Drag windows about and they quiver like jello. Very pleasant desktop transition appears like a cube rotating. Beautiful GUI configuration tool to set all kinds of options and keyboard shortcuts. If you are pissed off about Metacity taking away all the options, this fixes that big time. Some X config wrinkies hit me on one system, but I'm very pleasantly surprised. Install it, then run "beryl-manager" and you are off to the races. There's a file you can put in your ~/.config to start it every time. Beryl also provides a GUI way to change the selected window manager. Ever since Gnome adopted Metacity and made it so difficult to get rid of it and use a window manager, I've been frustrated. This looks like a breakthrough to me. This is a Dell D820 laptop with Nvidia Quadro video card, running the Nvidia company's commercial driver beta version 0.9626 from the livna-testing repository. I ran into various conflicting pieces of advice about how to change xorg.conf, and in the end I found the simplest possible settings work the best, and that efforts to put in additional options about compositor and such just make X work worse and worse. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
