On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:17 -0400, John E. Perry wrote:
Thanks, Marcus. However, I followed the first half of Tamas Sarga's advice (removing compiz), and my problem is solved. Someday maybe I'll try to find out what compiz might offer me, but at the moment I see no difference in my system :-), so it doesn't seem worth even the minor trouble of reinstalling it.
In the past, compiz was the window manager that had all the bells and whistles for the 3D desktop. Things like the cube. kwin was the poor cousin that did not have such support. Or at least not so advanced. In KDE4, kwin also has support for these things. However, compiz and kwin have a different architecture to the extent that they cannot share plugins with these features. So, kwin has one set of plugins, and compiz another, with most providing the same feature. But they are totally incompatible. So, one deciding factor in choosing compiz or kwin is which one has the desktop effect plugins you want. Nothing that is installed for compiz is used by kwin. Only compiz uses compiz and compiz plugins. Same for kwin. My conclusion is that kwin does all that compiz does. So I have dropped installing compiz. As I run KDE, kwin also works better as it is better integrated into KDE. Of course, ymmv. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org