me and my stuff

Since gusty, compiz-fusion will start by default. I love eye candy but for resource shortage reason on my old box, sometime i need to switch to metacity. with alt-f2 and run 'metacity replace' is just work but not convenion. Thank for Tom that point me . Fusion-icon is use to switch between compiz and metacity window manager. For hardy, fusion-icon is in repos. installation is easy like pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ sudo aptitude install fusion-icon Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: fusion-icon 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 29.8kB of archives. After unpacking 270kB will be used. ... Building tag database... Done pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ Running : alt-F2 and type 'fusion-icon -n' or if you want this everytime...

During use netbeans5.5 to create webapps. I insert table and suddenly netbeans crash. It generate error log[hs_err_pidxxxx.log] in my home dir and here is it said. # # An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment: # # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb51b8d5a, pid=5417, tid=3025587088 # # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.6.0-b105 mixed mode, sharing) # Problematic frame: # C [libmawt.so+0x81d5a] # # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: # http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp # Few months ago, I add "AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit" to fix blank window problem in swing application when enable "Desktop Effect" and now look like java hotspot has problem with MToolkit too:( "AWT_TOOLKIT=XToolkit" fix the problem but i will get blank window under compiz-fusion. So for now my solution is no eye-candy when use java apps.

When I looked at others screenshot posted on the web I noticed that some have window float off the cube when rotating. I love it and looking for what effect to do like that. Someone on ubuntuforums said "just enable 3D windows effect" but my "compizconfig setting manager" didn't has that effect to enable :(. or others said "it's for beryl only" that hard to believe. I try to search for plugin package and found that I miss two of four plugins packages, unofficial and unsupported[on tuxfamily.org]. Pick the leftover packages. pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ sudo aptitude install compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported 0 pa...

Update I just found that this problem is about xorg.conf. After add code below it gone Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection ------------------- Sometime when enable compiz-fusion with compiz --replace Window border will disappear and it's not comeback after restart X or even restart system[in my case]. To bring window border back, Alt-F2 then type metacity --replace Don't know why but it's work beleive me. After run this command your desktop will have no 3D effect, now you can try enable compiz again.

Two weeks ago, I read on ubuntuforums and found this thread about how to get compiz fusion work on ubuntu fiesty . It show you clearly step by step how to. Today I'm just decide to try and it's real amazing. 3D Cube and many effect feel smoother than the old compiz from repos. It's work on my asus n6200td 128M card, my memory is 512M, athlon xp 1700+ and A7N8X-E mobo. Compiz fusion still development version but for me it's very very very stable. So I urge you to try it now. Compiz Fusion is merging of compiz and beryl project. It's not on feisty repos yet but may be on Gutsy Gibbon.