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janskey
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 Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:18 am Post subject: XGL: KDE or GNOME |
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Hi Guys..
I need advice..which is better support of XGL: GNOME or KDE? I like to install xgl but i dont know which desktop is better, any advice?
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:40 am Post subject: |
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I use XGL with both desktops without issue. However this is running them with the startxgl script from the WIKI page and this in my xinitrc:
* For KDE:
compizrc &
sleep 2
startkde
* Otherwise just gnome-session for Gnome since it has compizrc in startup programs.
If parts of this don't make sense those said parts are covered in the WIKI howto. |
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janskey
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:50 am Post subject: |
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hachaboob,
thanks on this info..ahaehae.. 
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mark_alec
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| Moved from Desktop Environments to Unsupported Software. XGL is not supported. |
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| mark_alec wrote: | | Moved from Desktop Environments to Unsupported Software. XGL is not supported. |
hi mark_alec
what do you mean by not supported by XGL?
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yoshi314
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XGL is still in alpha stages. so it's unsupported by gentoo developers.
back to the topic - i think gnome performs a bit better with XGL. i had some glitches in KDE with wobbly plugin (which i dislike anyway)
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EDIT: I oversimplified and a buddy pointed out that what I said wasn't exactly true.
XGL is a set of OpenGL extensions on top of X. It is desktop-environment neutral. However, the authors designed and tested it on GNOME, and it was then adapted to work on other DEs. Guides are available here for using it on other DEs. The main disadvantage now for using it on, say, KDE, is that you have to install a ton of GNOME packages as dependencies to get gconf-editor and gnome-window-decorations. Other window-decorations packages aren't quite there yet, and you get GNOME titlebars when using XGL on KDE.
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janskey
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thanks a lot guys...
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