From: Viktor K. <vko...@gm...> - 2008-09-03 12:47:50
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On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 22:34 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 12:32 +0200, Viktor Kojouharov wrote: > > > What composite manager are you supposed to use? xcompmgr is just a > > proof-of-concept. Bling doesn't work that well. Bang is slow as hell. > > Ha! Doesn't even work on mine at all ( nvidia only I think ). > > > And now one actually knows how to set up Ecomorph. > > ??? I know. So do others. Have you looked at > http://code.google.com/p/itask-module/wiki/Stuff ? I've set up a number > of systems with ecomorph ( Gentoo and Ubuntu ) and it wasn't too hard on > either ( a bit more work on Ubuntu ). The problem at the moment is that > Ecomorph hasn't been updated in almost 6 months, and most likely the > modified E tree that you have to use doesn't compile against current > libraries ( though admittedly I haven't tried ). Also you have to hack > things up a bit for it to compile ( from memory there were problems with > I18N stuff or something - I think I just deleted some .po files and it > worked ). > > Anyway, I can give you help with getting Ecomorph going if you need. > IMHO it's the best thing that happened to E in years ( yes, never-ending > re-writing of libraries included in comparison ). > As long as it requires a custom E branch, it's kind of pointless for me. Why not incorporate the changes in the main branch? Or provide an easy patch. Right now, since the custom branch is so old, it's sort of useless. > Dan |