Paul Johnson wrote: > 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. > I agree Paul. I'm now running the same configuration you are (d820, nvidia 0.9626) and it is great. The one problem beryl fixes (in a way) is that netbeans 5.5 main screen is blank (sun java 1.5 bug), so I choose metacity window manager from the beryl-manager and use netbeans just fine. When done, just select Beryl again. No restart, just fun. Some links: http://s200.freehostia.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_:_Fedora_Core_6_-_Beryl http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2006/10/28/howto-using-beryl-in-fedora-core-6/ -- Brian Millett - [ Londo, "The Gathering"] "Nice shark...pretty shark..."
