Bug#553417: when turning of composite_manager in gconf the whole display freezes

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 16 novembre 2009 à 11:45 +0000, Will Thompson a écrit : 
> This is because gnome-wm chooses mutter over metacity if direct
> rendering is supported. I don't think this is a good choice. As I
> understand it, mutter is not really meant to be used in its own right;

Yes it is, it’s a drop-in replacement for metacity.

> moreover, if you're using an Intel graphics chip without kernel
> mode-setting enabled, Mutter draws approximately one frame per second
> (due to a Clutter bug, I believe).

That is more problematic. If you have an idea how to detect this case,
I’m all for adding the detection code to gnome-wm.

Cheers, 
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