Chris H Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 I decided to move away from my mandriva installation on one partition as I know have a livecd courtesy of lxf mag here in the uk. So the brown linux on my other partition has been replaced with a shiny new 2009/KDE4 installation. I have not enabled compiz as it's always been cpu intensive on my setup. However, as an alternative is Metisse any good? I've tried it before but never got past the learning curve. There must be some benefit to having it running. On a similar note enabling metisse from this install leads to a wildly flashing screen on login followed by a blue background with the 9 pane switcher and nowt else. Using drak3d to go back to a normal desktop is the only option (don't want to enable compiz). Any solution to the problem and has anyone got a good experience or review of metisse? Ta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 I've always found that Metisse is much more oriented towards productivity than Compiz is. But I'm a keyboard-intensive user, and I don't have time to decipher fvwm's config files to setup all the shortcuts I want. That's the main reason I stick with Compiz so far (it has a GUI where you enable the modules that will give you the shortcuts you want). That said, I find that Metisse basic features are better thought out than Compiz', and all it lacks compared to Compiz is users' contributions, if possible at all. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted November 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Thanks Yves. Next step is to get Metisse functioning properly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted November 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Panic over! Just installed Gnome and Metisse works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 20, 2008 Report Share Posted November 20, 2008 Nice :) Please tell us what you think of Metisse after using it for a while. Its users are rare and it's always nice to see another point of view! Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted November 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2008 I liked it. Less flashy than compiz, but with some amazing effects and functionality. Unfortunately it's as cpu hungry if not more than compiz and my laptop just overheated after 10 mins of metisse magic :sad: Shame as this is the first kernel that I could get it working properly on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 KDE4 has its own desktop effects. Try it in the KDE control centre>desktop>desktop effects. Of course first turn off the 3D desktop effect from the Mandriva control centre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted November 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Already have, but KDE4 is just too cpu intensive for my hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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