Hi,
I've just started using Compiz. I'm running Debian testing on a
HP/Compaq nc4400 laptop, and I've installed Compiz from the exprimental
repository, 0.3.6 I believe, since the 0.2.2 in testing was rather old.
In general I have very few problems, besides having to change my ways of
working due to a radically different interface :-)
I did run into one thing I don't quite understand.
I have setup right and left edge to turn the cube and if I use the mouse
wheel at the bottom of the screen the switcher is activated.
At some point the edges stopped working where a windows was snapped to
the edge of the display, and with the default behaviour of compiz
windows do tend to stick to the edges. If I was on one side of the cube
I couldn't turn it left by touching the edge, because there was another
window on the other side, but not visible on the active side.
It struck me that it might be because the window decorator had died on
me earlier, and I had just restarted it from a terminal. It seemed to
work, but somehow it broke edge triggers where they coincided with
windows borders.
I logged out and back in, and behaviour was back to normal, but I hate
logging out :-)
Why did that happen? I can understand that the decorator can crash,
stuff happens, but why did it take over display edges where they
coincided with windows borders? I use edges and corners quite a bit,
for the cube, the switcher and corners for scale/expose. Its rather
frustrating when it stops working like that.
As for the gtk-window-decorator crash, I think it happened when I
maximised and unmaximised a window several times in quick succession
because I wanted to view the effect.
As for usage habits, I used sawfish before and had 10-12 desktops with
only a few windows each. I has one desktop per active task, and kept
them uncluttered by having many. I guess it was because windows
switching was a bit difficult if there were too many windows.
With compiz I only have four desktops, but the switcher and especially
the scale plugin with edge and corner triggers make it quite easy to
find and switch windows, even when there are many.
I just discovered another weird thing. If I shade a window to get to
the desktop below, I cannot drag anything to the area where the shaded
window was. Its like there's still something there obscuring the
desktop window below.
And yet another thing, is there a way to get the scale plugin to show
shaded and minimised windows too? The switcher can do that, why not the
scale plugin.
--
Ren? Seindal (rene@seindal.dk)
