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