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

[Simon Roby]

On 5/25/07, Marco Benton <marco at xssnet.com> wrote:
> <rant>
> KDE with Beryl is hideous.  the desktop pager doesnt work like it
> should, there's a hack to get it to work but even that hack isnt stable.
>
> i found sometimes VLC would not show a video...sometimes it would...
> Windows media Player had the same problem...  Beryl makes firefox run
> painfully slow!  same Java apps display a blank window... etc...  of
> course most things have work arounds... i still find it unusable!
>
> disable Compiz/Beryl... everything works again...
> </rant>
>
> Beryl *IS* pretty... especially to show off to Windoze l-users.
>
> but if you want to actually *do* work, disable Compiz/Beryl and
> everything will work as expected.

I'll have to agree with Marco here. Beryl and Compiz are fun to play
with (and show off to your non-Linux-using family/friends/colleages)
but in the end they're too slow/buggy/unstable/annoying to use in an
everyday setup.

In short: if Beryl or Compiz gets in the way of your real
applications, do yourself a favor and turn it off. It's simply not
worth the trouble. Don't worry, you're not the only one having
problems with it.
-- 
- SR