Metacity with Expocity

[Sean Welch]

Yes, indeed -- I use it often and find that the slowness is all
restricted to startup and transitions between virtual desktops.

I wouldn't mind so much the slowness of the expocity mod
if it was similarly restricted, but even moving a window around
the screen is slow to start!

By the way, thanks for that port!   I like using it with no zoom
so that the desktop rotates on faces of a cube.

                                                                                Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Nov 25, 2003 10:33 PM
To: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch at alum.wofford.org>
Cc: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>, freebsd-gnome at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Metacity with Expocity

>> (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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