Turn on the Compositing Feature of Metacity

February 10th, 2008 | by TualatriX |

Thanks of Valentin, he added a new feature of Ubuntu Tweak, so that Ubuntu Tweak has the ability to turn on the Compositing Feature of Metacity. It is only work under Ubuntu 8.04.

Metacity is a compositing manager in Hardy now. But Compiz Fusion is turn on under Hardy by default if your hardware support. Now there’s another way to enjoy the Compositing feature, fast and simple.

First, make sure that Compiz Fusion is turn off in your hardy.

Open “System”->” Preferences”->”Appearance”->”Visual Effects”, and select “None”.

appearance-preferences.png

Then press “Alt + F2 ” or open the Terminal, type: gconf-editor to open the Configuration Editor.

Find the key: /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager, then turn on.

configuration-editor-general.png

The metacity is a compositing manager now! You can see the shadow of the windows and menu.

If you press Alt+Tab, you’ll see the screen like this:

compositing-manager-metacity.png

And you can run some application like Avant Window Navigator without Compiz, that’s the power of Compositing!

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  1. 10 Responses to “Turn on the Compositing Feature of Metacity”

  2. By OwnLinux on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply

    WELL!!

  3. By kq on Feb 16, 2008 | Reply

    in Widgets.py line 123:
    entry.set_text(text) =>
    => if text: entry.set_text(text).

    in Compiz.py line 267:
    “/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png”
    Not good idea, local picture is better.

  4. By TualatriX on Feb 17, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks kq. I’ll fix it.

  5. By empty_tank on Apr 3, 2008 | Reply

    Turning on the compositing feature of metacity disabled the video of movie player and vlc.

  6. By fenny on Apr 11, 2009 | Reply

    thanks for the new info (for me). appreciated.

  7. By jzacsh on Jun 29, 2009 | Reply

    Awesome, its nice to finally see through my terminal again (even on a machine without “visual effects” enabled)!

  8. By enos76 on Aug 9, 2009 | Reply

    Looks like it does not work in Jaunty :-(

  9. By enos76 on Aug 9, 2009 | Reply

    Wait, I take that back, it does work.
    Running gconf-editor with sudo opened it for the root user, and not for my current user. I can now run AWN without compiz, thanks a lot.

  10. By ekansh on Aug 9, 2009 | Reply

    man million thanks to u
    i dont have graphic card.. but wanted to see at least some effects ..

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