Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:09:43 -0600 (GMT-06:00) From: Sean Welch <welchsm@earthlink.net> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Metacity with Expocity Message-ID: <12492904.1069816183399.JavaMail.root@louie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
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Well no wonder! :-) I was trying it on my laptop running at 700MHz
with a 100 MHz bus... I might try it again with the speed bumped to
its max (1 GHz) to see if that makes it livable. (I've also got 512M
RAM)
That's a pretty smokin' machine compared to mine.
Sean
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>
Sent: Nov 25, 2003 8:50 PM
To: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Metacity with Expocity
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:08:34 -0600 (GMT-06:00), Sean Welch
<welchsm@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Thanks! It does work as advertised -- and now I can see
> what the people on slashdot meant by "S-L-O-W"
Umm, strange.. It doesn't slow down in my case, it's hard to notice on
AthlonXP 2000+ w/ 512mb ram. Also, near everything in my machine have been
compiled with the debug and it seems normal to me. :-)
Cheers,
Mezz
> I'd like to see this cleaned up and the speed increased.
> This is a *cool* effect.
>
> For others who would like to try this, it slows down all
> window manager functions to an unbearable crawl -- that
> means moving windows, switching virtual desktops, and
> creation of new windows. The feature also shifts windows
> slightly from their original positions after the expose like
> effect (I'd like to try this on Panther to see what it looks
> liek full speed).
>
> Sean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>
> Sent: Nov 25, 2003 6:21 PM
> To: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org>
> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Metacity with Expocity
>
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:18:30 -0600 (GMT-06:00), Sean Welch
> <welchsm@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> I just saw this article:
>>
>> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/25/0330208.shtml?tid=131&tid=179&tid=185&tid=189&tid=190
>>
>> an took a look at the patch here:
>>
>> http://www.pycage.de/download/expocity-11-24-03.diff
>>
>> Figuring to give it a try, I got it to compile and install but the
>> keystroke that is supposed to
>> activate it (Alt-Tab) doesn't do anything now. Perhaps someone else
>> might have a better
>> idea what to do with it and how to track the problem down??? It did
>> compile cleanly...
> <snip>
>
> Because, it never has been patch clean if you read the messages of patch.
> Looks like the diff was created against the CVS or development version of
> Metacity. Or maybe older version of Metacity, I dunno.
>
> That got me curious, I don't understand what's advantage of it. So, I
> cleaned the patch and make it easier for other users. You should be able
> to use this attach and put it in the x11-wm/metacity/files/ and do the
> 'make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install', then restart Metacity. I just played
> with it and it works, but I don't really like it thought. Maybe, I will
> like it if they make it more smaller and can stay in the background when
> I
> am doing with vim, browser or whatever. :-)
>
> BTW: Be sure to your Metacity version is 2.6.3 if you want to use an
> attach of patch-expocity.
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
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