I occasionally turn on Xfce's compositing for specific tasks in which it actually makes my work easier. But most if the time, it's off.How do you enable it? Did you also have to add something to xorg.conf?
Desktop compositing in Xfce? I just turn it on in the Compositing tab of the Window Manager Tweaks applet. No fiddling with xorg.conf necessary.
What about GoogleEarth?
I don't use it. I guess I ought to look into it. My brother showed me a really fantastic use he made of it for tracing the path of a priest through Colorado and Kansas in the 1600s for an anthropology paper he was doing. Just what I need, another way to spend time at a computer. But I have to admit that it's a fascinating application, despite my curmudgeonly tendency to scoff at fancy browser stuff.
I don't suppose the bits are open source? If not, I'll probably be passing. Eh, maybe I could talk myself into running it in a virtual machine.
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and I'm happier with them. Nvidia is simply not on my radar for any future systems because I consider their approach to Linux to be inimical to FOSS.That's a reasonable position to take...
Well, I'm seldom accused of being reasonable. But I figure I can be unreasonable with my own systems.
Thank you for the reminder of GoogleEarth. I've been so busy since I saw my brother that I had let it slip from my mind. Or it could just be old age.