Re: [gpm] OSD with compiz

[Paul Ionescu <i_p_a_u_l yahoo com>]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:06:58 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 12:14 +0000, Paul Ionescu wrote:
>> Hello all,
> 
> Hi, long time no speak! I hope you are well.

Hi, long time indeed. I'm fine, thank you.
And I see you are doing well too :)

> 
>> On a Fedora 9 system
>> sound OSD ( when you press the volume/mute keys on a keyboard) are
>> different for standard screen vs. compiz (Desktop effects enabled):
>> - when the desktop effects are enabled, the OSD is a big
>> semi-transparent
>> box with the sound/mute action in it. - when the desktop effects are
>> disabled, the OSD is a small opaque box
>> with the sound/mute action in it.
>> 
>> I want to activate the same behavior for the g-p-m OSD (brightness up/
>> down, etc) but I don't know how to do it.
> 
> There's a patch in bugzilla for this somewhere - until recently I
> couldn't test this (no composite support) - but I now have a shiny new
> Intel graphics laptop so hopefully we can make the UI's look all flashy.
> 
> If you want to find the patch in bugzilla and modify it so that it
> applies svn trunk I'll make sure it gets in. If not, point me at the
> patch and I'll see what I can do (am on a plane at the moment).

Ok, I thought that I may need to tick a check-box in gconf-editor for 
this, but it seems that we need a patch, and you are aware of it.
I'll have a search in bugzilla and see what I can do about it.
Thanks for info.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard.