On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 19:47 +1000, Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: > I have just enabled desktop effects on Gnome in F7. (Well, prior to > that, I have to add that Composite extension and add the line to omit > xfree86-dga in xorg.conf ... then install the various berly packages). > > I can see the wobbling effects on the windows in Gnome ... but I could > not figure out how to actually have the cube workspaces ( I have both > wobbling effects and cube workspace checkboxes enabled ). Do I need to > do something else ? If you try to drag a window off the left or right of the screen, does the screen whiz around to put it on another pane? I get variable results with it. Sometimes each desktop seems to get a cube each, sometimes dragging things over the edge puts it onto the next desktop (the cube's four sides are the four desktops). > If I use KDE instead, I don't get the wobbling effects, but I do > recognise that menus are somewhat animated ( drawn from small, then > bigger and bigger until it reaches its normal size ), or a sliding > effect. All of this is actual fast, so perhaps the only reason I > noticed it was because I was conscious that I enabled desktop effects > in Gnome. I haven't tried it in KDE. In Gnome, I did see a slowness of menus fading up and a bit of a wobble too them. I dislike this sort of thing. I want to use a menu *immediately*, not click and wait, hover over and wait. I'll have to see if I can disable that, yet still keep the windows thumbnailing feature. Surprisingly the wobbling windows as you move them actually seems easier on the eyes than rapidly dragging a window across the screen (big chunky jumps rather than a motion blur). > What other "effects" could I do ? I was advised to look through gconf earlier today (inside it, look through /apps/compiz/). That's chiefly for Gnome, though. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
