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.
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