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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22 package

  1. Bug #130325
  2. Comment #95

Comment 95 for bug 130325

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David Megginson (david-megginson) wrote : Re: [nvidia-glx] Don't enable compiz by default for gutsy

I'm an experienced user (Linux since 1993, Minix before that), but I lost several hours before I realized that glxgears and FlightGear were crashing X due to compiz. I *strongly* recommend disabling compiz by default in gutsy, since it provides nothing but eye candy, and having it running means that 3D apps will crash X by default in gutsy for all boxes running new NVIDIA cards -- it's easy enough to enable in the GUI for people who want it. Functionality should always win over flash.

Even when I'm not trying to run 3D apps, compiz seems very awkward on my new HP TX1220 compared with metacity -- there are sometimes freezes of several seconds, for example, especially when I'm trying to edit in OpenOffice. It may be cute, but it's not practical.