• Compositors
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I must profess a little ignorance here. I'm setting up an Ubuntu 9.10 build here, and for some inexplicable reason there's an almighty bug with the graphics card this laptop uses that makes it shit itself and die if I try and hook up a second monitor with compiz running. After trial and error I've settled with xcompmgr a simple compositor but at least I can run gnome-do and a second monitor at the same time. Now functionally, this is fine, but I am a vain bastard, I want to run a different window decorator, preferably emerald. Does xcompmgr have any config options whatsoever? If it does what are they? Or can you offer me the nuclear option with a better, more solid compositor that doesn't take the shitting and dying path?
I use Metacity's compositor. (Metacity is the default GNOME window manager.) There's no setting in the preferences window for turning it on; it's sort of a hidden feature. Run gconf-editor (you might have to install the package of the same name, if it isn't already installed), navigate to /apps/metacity/general, and turn on the "compositing_manager" checkbox. It's nothing extravagant, but you get soft shadows on windows, and window thumbnails in the alt-tab widget, and support for translucent windows (which is used by things like pop-up notification bubbles).
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