Re: [gnome-flashback] Issues with gnome-flashback on Ubuntu 16.04

[Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg gmail com>]

On 30/11/2015 08:53 πμ, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Another issue:
> 5) I can't resize nautilus or gedit, it's like their windows have no
> edges where the mouse shows the resize cursor.
> I can resize them on Unity by dragging the window edges.
> I can resize them on Metacity or Unity with Alt+Mouse wheel drag.

I cannot resize them on gnome-flashback with compiz, so Unity must be 
doing something special to make that work.


Two more issues:

6) gnome-flashback with metacity has a lot of tearing while watching 
youtube videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xkNy9gfKOg) or 
while playing SDL games. It appears that upstream changed how 
backingstore was implemented and made it go through a compositor if it's 
available or something like that. That upstream change landed around 
Ubuntu 13.10 (sorry I'm upgrading from 12.04, I didn't test 14.04 due to 
some unrelated problems).

I tried some workarounds from google, like disabling composite in the 
xorg Extensions section, or setting TearFree for Intel graphics, but 
they didn't help with metacity.

Switching to gnome-flashback with compiz worked like a charm though!


7) The panel applet for the keyboard layout switches between the 
available languages with the gnome-defined shortcut of Win+Space, but it 
doesn't switch with the xorg-defined shortcut of Alt+Shift.
The keyboard language switches with Alt+Shift; but the indicator is 
showing the (old) wrong language then.
# setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us,gr
variant:    ,
options:    grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll


Thank you guys,
Alkis