Re: [Hampshire] Compiz Fusion

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Author: Peter Salisbury
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Compiz Fusion
On Tuesday 10 Jul 2007, Mark Johnson wrote:
> > It seems to be better than the compiz in Sid at the moment,
> > especially the config management, but I still get fairly frequent
> > crashes in kde-window-decorator, it still doesn't work with the
> > Baghira style (produces lots of tiny windows then locks up)
>
> That's strange, I'm using Baghira and it works without a problem in
> Feisty.
>
> > and the interaction
> > between KDE and Compiz for multiple desktops is dire.
>
> Unfortunately, still true.
>
> > Also I can't
> > seem to get the 'water' plugin to do anything, but I don't know
> > what I'm looking for anyway!
>
> Press Shift+F9 to toggle the rain effect. There's other commands as
> well, you can find them in the "Actions" tab on the plugin's
> configuration dialogue.
> It's not a terribly useful plugin as it is, but people have used
> Dbus to do some cool stuff with it [1]
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcOZMGuieDU


Thanks, went looking and found:

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Plugins/PluginOptions

Which tells me my graphics card is 'not working' for the water effect.
Shame really, it looks fun!

Peter