The Cube Efffect [was: Yanking the Window Shade]

[Jestin Stoffel]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 10:57 -0600, feba thatl wrote:
> > I've heard much of the famed cube effect, and I think I have an
> > adequately powerful test box on which to run it.
> 
> I've got a 2.4GHz P4, 512MB of RAM, and a GeForce 6200 LE, and compiz
> still runs great. You should be golden. I have no idea *cough* why
> Vista's graphical effects take so much, but compiz seems to be more
> along the lines of OS X's graphics effects in terms of power. Only
> reason I stopped using it was because it doesn't play nice with 3D
> games and Wine, but most people don't need to worry about that.

When I used to run regular Compiz (not Compiz Fusion) I had the same
problem.  Now that I run AIGLX instead of XGL as my compositing window
manager, those problems have disappeared.

--Jestin