Choose a fallback compositor
Compiz is not always available, but Pantheon Shell requires compositing. We need to choose the best fallback compositor.
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- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Drafting
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
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Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
- Completed by
- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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First, we need to check if Ubuntu-patched Metacity works well with an external compositor (we're kinda bound to Metacity because we need workspaces in the fallback). Then we have to benchmark cairo-compmgr and Metacity's built-in compositor using http://
BTW, cairo-compmgr supports window picker, like in GNOME Shell overview and in Compiz. It doesn't support workspaces overview, unfortunately.
cairo-compmgr is noticeably slower than Metacity, unfortunately. It has some fancy effects, but we can't make use of them. We'll stick to Metacity for now. ~shnatsel
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