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I noticed today that there have been changes in the i810 dri drivers in Mesa CVS adding texture_rectangle support. This previously prevented compiz from working at all. After compiling the new dri drivers and testing them it appeared to finally work with a decent performance as well: http://www.sukimashita.com/temp/compiz-i815.gif However, as seen on the screenshot the known "black windows" issue is occurring. The hardware acceleration only works in 16 bpp modes for the cards thus other modes are not usable with Xgl. As seen in the background some 32 bpp texture binding fails from compiz....

I noticed there have been some older posts about a work in progress patch which never made it to the ML due to some issues. I am attaching three patches here in an effort to bring the button_layout support into gtk-window-decorator which allows you to define the titlebar button placements with a string (e.g. "menu:minimize,maximize,close") in /apps/metacity/general/button_layout. #

There have been offered several patches in order to forward Xinerama support to Xgl and patches for compiz to make use of it (like iXce's ones, which were ignored). So far the patched up compiz is working pretty good and makes it effectively usable in such setups (aside of that those patches will always drift away from official CVS and need to be touched for each commit). However it seems