View Poll Results: Do you use Compiz?

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  • Yes. All the time.

    242 56.15%
  • No. (including manually turning it off when starting a game/ movie, etc)

    131 30.39%
  • I use other compositing engine (metacity, kwin, xcompmgr, etc)

    58 13.46%
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Thread: Do you still use Compiz?

  1. #1
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    Do you still use Compiz?

    I have a gut feeling that most users turn off Compiz after a while,
    because it's slow, buggy, and unstable.

    Gut feeling are worthless beyond 80's movies, so lets collects some data.

    Please Vote!

    Clarification:
    The reason is not as important as the outcome - if you want to use Compiz but can't, it's still a No..
    Last edited by mangar; June 12th, 2009 at 12:11 PM. Reason: clarification

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    Re: Do you still use Compiz?

    I can't use it. It's broken.

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351186

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    Re: Do you still use Compiz?

    Don't use it. Don't like it much, it's somewhat slow and i see little point in it.
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    Re: Do you still use Compiz?

    It is not slow or buggy or unstable for me, so I use it. I turn it off for games tho.
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    Re: Do you still use Compiz?

    Maybe when trying to show-off Ubuntu to somebody but when I am just doing general computing I have it off.
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    Re: Do you still use Compiz?

    Compiz was pretty cool for about 5 minutes although you don't really "use" Compiz as it doesn't really do anything useful.

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    Re: Do you still use Compiz?

    Quote Originally Posted by mobilediesel View Post
    Compiz was pretty cool for about 5 minutes although you don't really "use" Compiz as it doesn't really do anything useful.
    Its quite useful for me. I use the Enhanced Desktop Zoom all the time, thanks to my poor eyesight. I also keep gkrellm in the widget layer. Makes it very easy to bring it up when I need it.

    And not very useful, but windows don't feel right unless they wobble

    Luckily I've had no/negligible issues with compiz.

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    Re: Do you still use Compiz?

    When it first came out I thought it was nice eye candy and nothing more. Now I use it on my PC and just love the functions like the scale function to show me all the programs I started in Gnome.

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    Re: Do you still use Compiz?

    Quote Originally Posted by mobilediesel View Post
    you don't really "use" Compiz as it doesn't really do anything useful.
    I beg to differ.

    Most of the showcase compiz stuff is indeed not so useful (wobbly windows and cube are the main offenders.... ick )... but there are two (well... 3) fantastic features I couldn't live without:

    Scale (The clone of OSX Expose`) - Have it on corner-activation, move your mouse to the corner, it shows all open windows from all desktops (scaled down), just click on the one you want, the rest just disappear to where they came from - much better than alt/super + tabbing through coverflow or app names imo

    Expo (if you use multiple desktops) can be much easier and faster than any of the other tools (Cube, Wall etc.) allowing you to rearrange stuff while zoomed out to a flat representation of your desktops

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  10. #10
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    Re: Do you still use Compiz?

    On my laptop Compiz is quite unreliable and after couple of minutes it gets annoying - so I turned it off permanently.

    On my parents' desktop I left minimal settings but only because it doesn't seem to cause any problems.

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