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Re: why compiz in place of mutter

 

Own up a large number roof different applications, and the load that
Unity/Compiz handles without a hitch brings the frame rates in Gnome
Shell/Mutter crashing down. Mutter will seem smoother at first, but this
tells me that it's inferior in terms of resource management.
On Jan 29, 2012 3:34 PM, "Josh Strawbridge" <holyknightjoshua@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> i know i can remove the global app menus that way but i don't really like
> to do that since the remaining app menus don't really match so great with
> the window decorations... or at least they didn't a few months ago.  also i
> kinda want to keep unity as full unity as i can so i can actually check out
> whatever updates may happen to it.  i keep hoping to eventually see an
> option to only have the menus in the top bar when a window is maximized
> since i think it's a nice use of the space in that situation.
>
> i actually tried setting the launcher to only come out when i mouse to the
> top left corner just before i sent that but for some reason it never would
> come out without moving down the left side of the screen some (about twice
> the top panel/bar's height) so it was actually worse than just leaving it
> left set for the left side.
>
> --
> Josh Strawbridge
>
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