Qt-subapplication

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Mon Apr 13 21:08:58 UTC 2009


Jonas Norlander wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Matthew Flaschen
> <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>> Steven Vollom wrote:
>>> I noticed that too, however, I am not running Compiz.  I am in Jaunty Beta,
>>> though, and the Desktop Effects are much like Compiz.  I thought about it, but
>>> everything has to be so exact with Linux, I dismissed the idea.  I could not
>>> see Desktop Effects being associated with Compiz, unless stated as such.
>> I believe "Desktop Effects" is in fact the same thing as Compiz.  See
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/desktop-effects-kde .  It does kind of
>> seem like a pointless renaming.
>>
>> Matt Flaschen
>>
> 
> I don't agree. Compiz/Compiz-fusion and KWin is two different
> compositing window manager that both can use OpenGL for Desktop
> effects. The desktop-effects-kde package is only a GUI front end to
> configure the the Compiz window manager and it's plugins if I
> understand it right.

I guess the question is, which compositing wm (if any) is installed by
default in Kubuntu Jaunty?

Matt Flaschen




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