Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net>]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:26:09AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:02:02PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > 
> > I haven't decided if enabling composite by default is a wise move yet. No
> > one in Debian has done a real analysis as to what the downsides of such a
> > decision are.
> > 
> > While compiz and beryl may be very sexy, I don't want to break or degrade
> > performance on systems not running them simply for the convenience of not
> > having to modify xorg.conf. It's not out of the question, but I don't want
> > to blindly enable options in our default settings for the bling of it.
> 
> Than can we conditionalise it?  We could add a question with priority
> 'normal' that most users won't see.  Then in the post-etch era, the Beryl
> community can add a "reconfigure xserver-xorg and enable beryl settings"
> step in their how-tos.
> 
> If we were to do that, I suppose we would prefer to have XAANoOffscreenPixmaps
> and AddARGBGLXVisuals as well.

I'd be fine with that. You'll have to ask the translation team for
permission on this one though. I've cc'ed Christian in case he's not
reading this report.

 - David Nusinow