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- Metacity Compositor
- ===================
-
- Since version 2.22 Metacity includes a simple compositor. It's only
- intended to add a set of non-customisable simple effects. Currently
- these include a drop-shadow around windows, and thumbnail previews in
- the window switcher dialog.
-
- Contrary to Compiz, the Metacity compositor uses the XRender extension
- to draw to the screen. This means that no 3D acceleration is
- needed. This should in theory make it suitable to run on a larger selection of
- hardware, but only if your video driver implements sufficient Render
- performance.
-
- The compositor can be enabled on the fly by setting the gconf key
- /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager to true by using
- gconf-editor or gconftool-2.
-
- Before enabling the compositor, you need to make sure your X server
- configuration has the composite extension loaded and enabled.
-