What do you guys think of X.org 6.8, with the true transparency.

Hard to tell since there are no apps to properly make use of the new extensions, except perhaps for Metacity but I haven't Gnome 2.8 yet. But X.org 6.8.0 works fine on my laptop.


Håkan

Does GNOME 2.8 support true Transparency?

I'd install it if I knew how. Complete newbie to installing things of this magnitude


(hint hint someone want to teach me?)

If you want to try it out but don't want to risk messing up your existing installation, then Garnome is for you! (I remind myself of bad advertisments when I say this )

It allows you to download and build bleeding edge Gnome versions in locations considered safe. The default is in a garnome directory in your home dir, but I usually put it in /usr/local/garnome so other users on the system can benefit from it. You can also point configure scripts to this directory hierarchy later on when building other Gnome/GTK2 apps so they build against your new Garnome libs. Very neat, I recommend it very much.

-- Garnome homepage
-- Cipherpunk Paul's Garnome 2.8.0


Håkan

Lol I can install window managers, those are easy.

Its the X11 subsystem that I'm scared of.

Building X.org from source is as easy as building Gnome from source.

Ikaro had an article on building the 6.7.900 preview releases from CVS and it still applies with some minor changes (i.e. you don't need to checkout the source from cvs, just download the tarballs).


Håkan