-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2010-01-11 at 20:24 +0100, Clayton wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 20:15, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
The problem is that the first time I switched to the proprietary driver, my gnome desktop drove me nuts: windows "wobbled" when I moved them. I thought the display was using a terribly slow refresh or redraw speed; perhaps I had been had with my shiny big new display. I fought the problem for an hour or two. Suddenly I hit ctrl-alt-right to change to another workspace and I saw "the" cube rotating... all was clear. Suse guys have enabled compiz by default, but it is inactive till you put a capable driver in.
In KDE4 the compositing thing is very toned down in comparison - eg no wobbly windows. Plus, disabling compositing is super easy with an Alt+Shift+F12. (there must be something similar in Gnome.. or have the Gnome devs decided that that too is too confusing and removed it?)
You have to know beforehand that there is a key that disables it. I don't. It is enabled in the control center, I think it is called "desktop effects" or similar. Actually, it is enabled by default, and it works as soon as you have 3D driver installed. As I did not enable compiz, I had no idea how to disable it, I had not read any docs. And I still don't know. They say it is very simple... well, it can't be so simple, as there are one or two wiki pages describing how to disable compiz.
I have tried using the nv driver, but.. overall it simply doesn't work well enough for me.. i hate having to re-enable the proprietary driver every time I want to do something extra... so it's always enabled/in use on my system.
I usually don't need anything the propietary driver provides. I don't play games. What else is it good for? >:-) Except that hybernation is broken. That's the only reason I need it on my new machine. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktQwmwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VU4wCeKlrdiMuT5T9iJADL8peZyhDF WR0An2m9R66wRgCMj0kUcRTIEd96Umad =66Yq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org