Desktop Effects Windows Selector

[kolslorr]

Hello,

I am able to have desktop effects running on my Ubuntu Fesity, and it looks really good.

However, my machine specs are too low, and enabling this cause performance degradation.

Then I am thinking of disabling it, since it doesnt really affects my workflow. But I really like the windows selector feature that comes with compiz, whereby I just need to click on the top right corner to bring up all the windows arranged in a grid, and I can select the one I want to activate.

Any method of only enabling this feature somehow without using any other compiz feature?

Thanks.

[aidanr]

haven't tried it, but this might be worth trying out
http://kompose.berlios.de/

or try turning off all the other plugins bar scale in gconf-editor

[lanchongzi]

if your comp specs are too low AND you are running GNOME I wouldnt really recommend kompose
I use it under KDE and I like it a lot

BUT under GNOME it becomes SUPER slow

kinda takes the fun and useability out of it

plus when you clik on one application ( under GNOME that is ) it will put them in the same desktop as you were before
resulting in an chaos desktop ( windows like )

[kolslorr]

Thanks for all your input, appreciate it...

I tried to enable desktop effects WITHOUT ticking both checkboxes, and I get the windows selector function without all the extras... sweet.

But i realised enabling this brings me some other issues which I am really tired of trying to resolve... namely, my video playback at Totem breaks, showing only black screen.

I tried to download kompose to try, but couldnt find the download link... lol.. I am noob.

Thanks guys.

[Spin Doctor]

Originally Posted by kolslorr ...But i realised enabling this brings me some other issues which I am really tired of trying to resolve... namely, my video playback at Totem breaks, showing only black screen. .....

Try this to solve your problem with Totem:

• Press ALT+F2
• Enter ,"gstreamer-properties"
• choose the video tab
• At the output line. choose "X Window System (no Xv)

Let me know if that works for ya! =)

[jan.]

Worked for me