Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:33:07 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Metacity with Expocity Message-ID: <20031126043307.GL40706@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <12736983.1069812514644.JavaMail.root@louie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> References: <12736983.1069812514644.JavaMail.root@louie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
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>> (11.25.2003 @ 2108 PST): Sean Welch said, in 2.4K: << > 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). >> end of "Re: Metacity with Expocity" from Sean Welch << FWIW, I made a port of 3ddesktop... it's in the ports tree somewhere. It's unbelievably silly but super cool. Not really the same thing, but it also slows things down a lot. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger vectors.cx >> adam@vectors.cx >> http://www.vectors.cx magnesium.net << adamw@magnesium.net << http://www.magnesium.net/~adamw FreeBSD >> adamw@FreeBSD.org >> http://people.freebsd.org/~adamw #vim:set ts=8: 8-char tabs prevent tooth decay.
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