From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 18:08:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B5D16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:08:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CBC43FA3 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:08:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from welchsm@earthlink.net) Received: from louie.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.221]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AOp6Y-0003wJ-00; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:08:34 -0800 Message-ID: <12736983.1069812514644.JavaMail.root@louie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:08:34 -0600 (GMT-06:00) From: Sean Welch To: Jeremy Messenger Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Zoo Mail 1.0 cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Metacity with Expocity X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sean Welch List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 02:08:38 -0000 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 Sent: Nov 25, 2003 6:21 PM To: Sean Welch Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Metacity with Expocity On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:18:30 -0600 (GMT-06:00), Sean Welch 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... 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 -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.