How to turn on Metacity Compositing Manager?

[eewald]

compiz has too many problems (both technical and usability) for my taste, so i thought it might be worth trying out metacity's integrated compositing manager as described here:
http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/

that "switch on" button won't be included in new gnome gconf in spite what davyd says, so, how do i turn it on?

[UbuntuUX]

It's not on by default so i guess the package it not compiled with it on.

[mattisking]

The changes needed to enable that aren't in our xorg packages yet. He said that it requires, I believe, xorg from cvs which I wouldn't recommend.

[poofyhairguy]

that "switch on" button won't be included in new gnome gconf in spite what davyd says, so, how do i turn it on?

I think currently Fedora is the only distro with the Metacity compositor. It requires many RPMs to get it to work.

I tried alienizing the RPMs but that didn't work. The only way I got to try it was to use Fedora.

[RAOF]

If you can get libcm built from gnome cvs, you'd only need to
apt-get source metacity, edit the debian/rules file to include the "--enable-compositor" option, and rebuilt the package with "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot".