Bug#432802: compiz: Compiz intereferes with workspace switcher and window selector applets
Kevin Brown wrote:
> Brice Goglin wrote:
>> Unfortunately, compiz is not part of Gnome, so I don't think we can
>> expect it to look as well integrated in Gnome stuff as Metacity or so.
>> You might want to look at compiz-fusion anyway, since this is where
>> actual development is done now, and I don't expect many improvement in
>> the plain compiz in the near future regarding these problems.
>
> I didn't see any Debian packages for that, but I'll try it when they
> appear...
They are not packaged yes, maybe not even released. I don't know how
hard it is to build them.
> The cube effect is cool and gimmicky based on the videos I've seen (I
> haven't been able to get it to work at all myself),
Well, what doesn't work? If you have hsize > 1, what happens when you
try to move a window to the right of your screen? or if you press
ctrl-alt-left/right? It should rotate.
> but doesn't look to be as clean and direct as the workspace switcher,
> and doesn't show you at a glance what your window layout across your
> workspaces (whether they're separate or not) looks like.
You should just use ctrl-alt-bottom to see all faces of the cube at once
and then left/right to switch between them. It's much nicer than the
workspace switcher since it's much bigger and you can still see the
(reduced) contents of the windows.
> So from a strict usability standpoint, the workspace switcher looks
> like a better way to go, in my opinion.
Still, I don't see why use compiz then :)
Brice
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