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10/19/2009: "A Steaming Pile"

What a steaming pile of doodoo compiz is. On a lark I turned it on today and it caused some annoying repaint problems in my konsole session. I googled some solutions, tweaked my xorg.conf file and tried again. This time it completely barfed on my desktop when I opened a PDF. It then locked up my machine.

"Compiz: just say no."

On the other hand, turning on the compositing in Metacity works nicely for drop-shadows. All that other eye-candy is pretty worthless, but drop-shadows actually help your brain work with multiple overlapping windows. This isn't well know, but you can turn it on by opening gconf-editor and finding apps->metacity->general, then clicking on the "compositing_manager" check box.