Metacity Composite Effects

[Crispy Beef]

Hi All,

I've just got composite effects working in metacity. Is there an easy way - or list of vars - that I can use to adjust the way the effects work at all. I've searched Google and the forums here but most results/threads deal with getting it up and running and not messing with the settings once it's all working.

Cheers,

Crispy

[guyr]

If I may ask, how did you get composite effects working with metacity? I'm running gnome 2.20 with ATI X600 on 2.6.23-r9 with ati-drivers 8.433 and metacity 2.20.2. I found some instructions to re-emerge metacity with xcomposite use flag, but that is not a supported use flag. I see at the bottom of the ebuild for metacity:

pkg_setup() {
G2CONF="${G2CONF}
$(use_enable xinerama)
--disable-compositor"
}


Does this mean if xinerama is specified in the USE flags, that composite is disabled? I do have xinerama enabled, but I don't think I need it since I'm running ATI big desktop. But if I look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I do see composite enabled.

[EDIT] I disabled the xinerama use flag for metacity and re-emerged it. Unfortunately, that still doesn't show any effects in Gnome. And now every time I open a window, it opens up on the wrong monitor

I've updated gconf to set the metacity composite boolean, and still I see nothing. Are there any simple things I can look for to see if composite is actually working or not? Thanks.

[CompNerd]

GNOME 2.22 will have the Metacity compositor available.

[guyr]

GNOME 2.22 will have the Metacity compositor available.

Ok, thanks. Having the windows open up on the wrong montor is much more of a bother than any special effects would be entertaining. So I'm going to re-enable Xinerama in metacity.

[T-O7]

Hello,

I just installed gnome 2.22 yesterday after it became amd64 stable in portage, and I enabled compositing_manager for Metacity in the Configuration Editor, but I still do not get any nice transparency/shadow effects. Is there anything else I need to do?

Thanks!

[T-O7]

Ok, I found the fix. Apparently, because i'm using xorg-server-1.3.X, i need to add

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Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "true"
EndSection

to my xorg.conf. Everything looks pretty now

[rahulthewall]

Hi All,

I've just got composite effects working in metacity. Is there an easy way - or list of vars - that I can use to adjust the way the effects work at all. I've searched Google and the forums here but most results/threads deal with getting it up and running and not messing with the settings once it's all working.

Cheers,

Crispy

As far as I know, you cannot modify how the effects work in 2.22. Maybe it will change in 2.24