Metacity with Expocity

Adam Weinberger adamw at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 25 20:33:08 PST 2003


>> (11.25.2003 @ 2108 PST): Sean Welch said, in 2.4K: <<
> Thanks!  It does work as advertised -- and now I can see
> what the people on slashdot meant by "S-L-O-W"
> 
> I'd like to see this cleaned up and the speed increased.
> This is a *cool* effect.
> 
> For others who would like to try this, it slows down all
> window manager functions to an unbearable crawl -- that
> means moving windows, switching virtual desktops, and
> creation of new windows.  The feature also shifts windows
> slightly from their original positions after the expose like
> effect (I'd like to try this on Panther to see what it looks 
> liek full speed).
>> end of "Re: Metacity with Expocity" from Sean Welch <<

FWIW, I made a port of 3ddesktop... it's in the ports tree somewhere.
It's unbelievably silly but super cool. Not really the same thing, but
it also slows things down a lot.

# Adam


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