Metacity with Expocity

[Sean Welch]

Thanks!  It does work as advertised -- and now I can see
what the people on slashdot meant by "S-L-O-W"

I'd like to see this cleaned up and the speed increased.
This is a *cool* effect.

For others who would like to try this, it slows down all
window manager functions to an unbearable crawl -- that
means moving windows, switching virtual desktops, and
creation of new windows.  The feature also shifts windows
slightly from their original positions after the expose like
effect (I'd like to try this on Panther to see what it looks 
liek full speed).

                                                                    Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>
Sent: Nov 25, 2003 6:21 PM
To: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch at alum.wofford.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Metacity with Expocity

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:18:30 -0600 (GMT-06:00), Sean Welch 
<welchsm at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I just saw this article:
>
> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/25/0330208.shtml?tid=131&tid=179&tid=185&tid=189&tid=190
>
> an took a look at the patch here:
>
> http://www.pycage.de/download/expocity-11-24-03.diff
>
> Figuring to give it a try, I got it to compile and install but the 
> keystroke that is supposed to
> activate it (Alt-Tab) doesn't do anything now.  Perhaps someone else 
> might have a better
> idea what to do with it and how to track the problem down???  It did 
> compile cleanly...
<snip>

Because, it never has been patch clean if you read the messages of patch. 
Looks like the diff was created against the CVS or development version of 
Metacity. Or maybe older version of Metacity, I dunno.

That got me curious, I don't understand what's advantage of it. So, I 
cleaned the patch and make it easier for other users. You should be able 
to use this attach and put it in the x11-wm/metacity/files/ and do the 
'make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install', then restart Metacity. I just played 
with it and it works, but I don't really like it thought. Maybe, I will 
like it if they make it more smaller and can stay in the background when I 
am doing with vim, browser or whatever. :-)

BTW: Be sure to your Metacity version is 2.6.3 if you want to use an 
attach of patch-expocity.

Cheers,
Mezz


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