Re: Theme patriation

[Thomas Thurman <tthurman gnome org>]

Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> > Who mentioned compiz?  This was about reasons not to run metacity.
> 
> Nobody explicitly mentioned compiz, but when I followed up the 
> link to cairo-clock which I was offered (and which I reproduced in 
> my posting) it turned out that compiz was required for running 
> that app.

No, http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=23 says:

What's needed in order to run?
 [...]
 * a compositing-manager (e.g. compiz)

And Metacity is a compositing manager.

> As I mentioned before, I can run xclock without window decorations 
> just fine under Sawfish, but not under Metacity -- that's the 
> relevance to this thread.  (That is, if you want a functional 
> desktop analog clock: forget it, if you're running gnome with 
> Metacity.)

I got that bit, but someone said "Oh, run cairo-clock", and you said "I 
can't, I don't want to run Compiz".  But you can run cairo-clock under 
Metacity just fine.

Thomas

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