Well, Ubuntu 7.10 is giving me a hard time about using XGL because I use a worthless Intel Centrino Mobile. It lags so much, it looks like i have a 20Hz refresh rate on my monitor when i try to move a window. It turns out it was the proccessor as I saw it had a heavy (60%+) workload and it does not like XGL. Is there an alternative? And, uh, if not, how do i shut XGL off without shutting my login off?

Just to tell you, I'm using Cairo dock and it gives me a really annoying shadow without XGL, so I need it. Either I need that, or I need another graphical solution, if you can try to help.

Thanks in advance!

Is hardware acceleration working on your GPU? If it is trying to do the effects in software, it is always going to be that slow.