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Adicionar efeitos ao metacity com um comando

amrlima — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:39:02 +0000

Quem acha o compiz demasiado mas ainda assim quer ter uma consola transparente e uns efeitos sóbrios mas um pouco melhores do que os que vêm por omissão no metacity, pode activar o composite manager do metacity. Para isso é preciso ir editar uma chave do gconf e por isso não é lá muito prático.

EDIT: Só parece funcionar nas versões de desenvolvimento. Só deve estar nas distros nos próximos releases!

Mas vi uma dica no blog do metecity que ajuda e muito. Para fazer a activação dos efeitos basta fazer:

Alt + F2

metacity -c

Enter

E já está! Nada mais simples!

Using metacity and not missing compiz

amrlima — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:11:00 +0000

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!

Metacity as a composite manager

amrlima — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:47:00 +0000

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!

Metacity as a composite manager

amrlima — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:22:05 +0000