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”.
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.
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:
And you can run some application like Avant Window Navigator without Compiz, that’s the power of Compositing!
WELL!!
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.
Thanks kq. I’ll fix it.
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Turning on the compositing feature of metacity disabled the video of movie player and vlc.
thanks for the new info (for me). appreciated.
Awesome, its nice to finally see through my terminal again (even on a machine without “visual effects” enabled)!
Looks like it does not work in Jaunty
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.
man million thanks to u
i dont have graphic card.. but wanted to see at least some effects ..
Nailed it – thank you
Excellent. I had massive problem with Compiz na 11.04 and needed to remove. I was left with naked metacity. Now it got ALL I NEED. Thanks !