Metacity integrated compositing manager

[nharvey]

Hi Everyone

I am currently trying out Fedora Core 5 test 3 and so far it looks very nice. One thing I'm particulalry interested in trying out is the new compositing manager built-in to Metacity in Gnome 2.14 (see section "Look Through Any Window" in this article for more details: http://www.gnome.org/%7Edavyd/gnome-2-14/).

That article shows the compositing manager being controlled using a tool called 'configuration editor' but having searched high and low I cannot find this in FC5-test 3. My web searches have led me to understand this tool might be envoked from the command line with "gconf-editor" but that doesn't work either.

So, does anyone know how to get this configuration editor working in FC5, and indeed does the compositing manager work? Of course if I am missing something blindingly obvious then I'll be only too happy to be put straight!

Thanks.

[hiberphoptik]

here--> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx

i tried it.. didnt work for me let us know how it worked for you

[sirkware]

Didnt work also when my friend tried it. The UI didnt show up after logging in. He cant even pass through the login screen.

Also gconf-tool2 command didnt work. He manually modified the metacity value using the configuration editor.

[hiberphoptik]

Originally Posted by sirkware

Didnt work also when my friend tried it. The UI didnt show up after logging in. He cant even pass through the login screen.

Also gconf-tool2 command didnt work. He manually modified the metacity value using the configuration editor.

yeah i manually checked the value in the GUI also, i was in gnome when i enabled it so i was already loged in, but after it blinked my windows a bunch of times i was left with no window borders and no special effects

meh.. i dont have much faith in it working with xinerama anyway and i wont go back to only one screen so i may be out in the cold for a while even when it is released

[nharvey]

Thanks guys for your answers.

I'm running FC5 in VMware right now, so my tests might not be that relevant, but I do have another question.

Firstly, at what point in those instructions (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx) should the new visual affects appear? The instructions end by saying you should add the 'Composite' extension to your xorg.conf file, but then what happens after that? I have re-booted but there is no change.

And my second question was going to be "I still can't find gconf-editor - where is it?" but I've just figured this out: I needed to install it with "yum install gconf-editor".

Thanks