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I’ve been using metacity as a composite manager for about 2 weeks now and I don’t miss compiz! What I used more in compiz was Alt + tab and transparency, and now I can get that with metacity! And it’s less resource hungry and a bit more responsive. The fancy 2D plugins and the complex compiz animations are in general not useful in a regular working day. Of course they are always nice to show to our friends what linux can do!

So if you want a snapier desktop, but still with some nice effects ans transparency, try metacity again!

For those who think compiz is resource hungry and don’t use most of the plugins, now you can have transparency and smooth minimize/maximize effects with metacity. If you are using GNOME 2.22 (available on Debian Lenny, Ubuntu Hardy) you can just open gconf-editor and browse apps -> metacity -> general -> compositing_manager and mark the check-box! If you are using compiz, just open a terminal and type: metacity –replace. There you go, metacity as a composite manaegr :). I’m testing it now!

For those who think compiz is resource hungry and don’t use most of the plugins, now you can have transparency and smooth minimize/maximize effects with metacity. If you are using GNOME 2.22 (available on Debian Lenny, Ubuntu Hardy) you can just open gconf-editor and browse apps -> metacity -> general -> compositing_manager and mark the check-box! If you are using compiz, just open a terminal and type: metacity –replace. There you go, metacity as a composite manaegr :). I’m testing it now!