[cw-discuss] lockup in FC6 AMD64 [OT]

[Andrew Douglas Pitonyak]

Simon, please forgive my questions, but you seem to know a lot about Beryl.

Simon Roby wrote:
> On 5/23/07, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew at pitonyak.org> wrote:
>> I hope that they fix this because it is really pretty! I switched from
>> KDE to GNome so that I could use it. I stopped using it because it is
>> unstable. I would consider jumping back to KDE, but then my poor wife
>> would need to deal with change; she does not like change. Well, she does
>> not like that kind of change. She keeps rearranging stuff and then I
>> have no idea where it went. It would almost be like payback. Boy, I
>> could get into a lot of trouble here.
> Say that again? Beryl is not dependent on Gnome, it runs fine under
> KDE. It's actually one of the reasons why it forked off Compiz.

I had no idea. I was lead to believe that I could only have the pretty 
desktop effects if I used Gnome.

Question: Has Beryl always worked with both?

Question: Am I the only person that needed to disable Desktop Effects 
for stability?

Question: Is the instability likely a problem with the video driver, or 
with Beryl?

I really like the desktop effects and am sad to disable them. I did have 
other things cause lockups, but crossover was the most reliable way to 
lock X.

>> > if you want pretty desktop effects, install Vista. ;-)
>> I wonder where Vista got the idea to add pretty effects :-)
> No, everybody is just copying on Apple. And trying too much. Apple
> figured out the right amount of eye-candy years ago, and now everyone
> wants to one-up it by going overboard with distracting effects.
I think that Windows borrowed heavily from Apple, and also from OS/2. 
While watching many of the innovations in Windows that I could easily 
track to other systems that did it first, I was not really aware of 
Linux. I did not jump into Linux until... Hmmm, what was my first red 
hat that I purchased?  I went from OS/2 to Linux so it was probably RH4 
before they had Fedora.

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