Anybody played with XGL yet....just upgraded my machine to Ubuntu dapper 6.04 ?
Looks like getting XGL and Compiz working on a 64bit machine is "fun" at the moment but I am going to give it a try later.
Slightly put of by all the warnings on the forums that it is highly unstable at the moment...but hey nothing ventured and all that.
Apart from that the dapper upgrade went fairly well (considering Ubuntu are currently considering holding off the scheduled release for 6 weeks to tidy up the remaining bugs) I had a slight problem with Openoffice2 during the upgrade but removing the installation packages and then reinstalling after everything else was upgraded seems to fix it...at least all the important stuff seems to be working, but the default theme is still a bit of a mess.
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:48:08PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Anybody played with XGL yet....just upgraded my machine to Ubuntu dapper 6.04 ?
Yup & yup :) I've been running Dapper for a couple of months now as my main desktop as it seemed stable enough, I did try XGL and Compiz the other day for a 30 minutes "coo, look at this!" and it was quite fun.
Thanks Adam
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 15:35 +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
Yup & yup :) I've been running Dapper for a couple of months now as my main desktop as it seemed stable enough, I did try XGL and Compiz the other day for a 30 minutes "coo, look at this!" and it was quite fun.
Awwww man...this is just so cool.
Talk about eye candy !!! It's gorgeous and considering my rather mediocre Nvidia card, pretty snappy too.
Like you I may get bored of it,but just the F12 Expose type feature is worth the headache setting it up (it is truly a pain on AMD64)..Or perhaps some bug or another will drive me mad...but at the moment I think I will leave it on if only to annoy the hell out of my Mac using girlfriend....Ha, call that eyecandy !
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 15:35 +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:48:08PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Anybody played with XGL yet....just upgraded my machine to Ubuntu dapper 6.04 ?
One tiny issue I am having post XGL is that when I first started it I got a warning that my X keyboard settings did not match the gnome ones..asking me which ones I wanted, I selected "Gnome"
Since then I have a very strange keyboard mapping (most of the symbols are broken and z and y are swapped) until I do a
xmodmap /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.uk
How do I make this change permanent ?
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 07:57:43PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
One tiny issue I am having post XGL is that when I first started it I got a warning that my X keyboard settings did not match the gnome ones..asking me which ones I wanted, I selected "Gnome"
Since then I have a very strange keyboard mapping (most of the symbols are broken and z and y are swapped) until I do a
Have a look in the menus System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layout and see what it says there?
Thanks Adam
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 20:32 +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
Have a look in the menus System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layout and see what it says there?
I went there before playing with xmodmap...even before the xmodmap command I have the following
Keyboard model Unknown
Selected Layout English key-map (default ticked)
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