Re: Opaque window move in Metacity

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 19:08, Bart Kuik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get Slackware 9.0 with Dropline GNOME working on my
> Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop (PII-233, 160 MB blah blah). Most of the stuff
> works now, but the vga-drivers for the built-in NeoMagic videoboard
> (standard XFree86 SVGA drivers) are terribly slow, too slow for any
> eye-candy.
> 
> So I searched for an option to disable opaque window moving, but
> couldn't find any. How can I disable it anyway? Is it an option in X or
> in the windowmanager?

Depends on the window manager. The default GNOME window manager,
metacity, does not have such an option. There is a bugzilla bug about it
somewhere (which contains the metacity maintainer's justifications), the
is a Sun patch for it (since they wanted it anyway), there is mail in
the archives (possibly the archives of this list) about it, too. Search
for "wireframe metacity" and "Calum Benson" to find the latest mail to
the patch.

The alternative is to change your window manager to something like
Sawfish.

Cheers,
Malcolm