Re: Theme patriation
- From: Thomas Thurman <tthurman gnome org>
- To: Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>
- Cc: Iain * <iaingnome gmail com>, gtk-devel-list gnome org, Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>
- Subject: Re: Theme patriation
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:07:51 -0400
Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> > Who mentioned compiz? This was about reasons not to run metacity.
>
> Nobody explicitly mentioned compiz, but when I followed up the
> link to cairo-clock which I was offered (and which I reproduced in
> my posting) it turned out that compiz was required for running
> that app.
No, http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=23 says:
What's needed in order to run?
[...]
* a compositing-manager (e.g. compiz)
And Metacity is a compositing manager.
> As I mentioned before, I can run xclock without window decorations
> just fine under Sawfish, but not under Metacity -- that's the
> relevance to this thread. (That is, if you want a functional
> desktop analog clock: forget it, if you're running gnome with
> Metacity.)
I got that bit, but someone said "Oh, run cairo-clock", and you said "I
can't, I don't want to run Compiz". But you can run cairo-clock under
Metacity just fine.
Thomas
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