Package: compiz-gnome Version: 0.6.3~git20080115.0ea58487-1 Severity: important
No complaints about the actual functionality of the package. It seems to work great. Running compiz --replace from within a regular gnome session does exactly as it is advertised to do. However, there really needs to be a straightforward way to make compiz your default window manager instead of metacity. Or better yet, make it the system-wide default window manager. I've read all sorts of terrible suggestions like adding an additional startup program via System->Preferences->Sessions which just executes the command "compiz --replace". The problem with this of course is that you have just wasted several CPU cycles starting metacity only to go and "replace" it with compiz. After several hours of searching I finally found that you can add the file ~/.gnomerc with the line export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/compiz to create the desired effect, but this is not indicated anywhere in the documentation that I can find. Moreover, even if it was I don't believe that it should be necessary to consult the documentation merely to get the package working. I think usability would improve significantly especially for beginner users if the compiz-gnome package emulated the openbox package which gives an additional entry in the the "Session" menu of GDM for Gnome on top of openbox. Maybe this way we would loose fewer novices to Ubuntu ;) Kevin -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'testing'), (200, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-amd64.016 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages compiz-gnome depends on: ii compiz-gtk 0.6.3~git20080115.0ea58487-1 OpenGL window and compositing mana ii libart-2.0- 2.3.20-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2- 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.5.8-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0- 2.16.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-de 2.22.0-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome-wi 1:2.22.0-2 Utility library for getting window ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecan 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui- 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs 1:2.22.0-2 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii liborbit2 1:2.14.12-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0 1.20.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library ii libstartup- 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac compiz-gnome recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
