Tag Archives: Compiz

Compiz Fusion : Debian / Ubuntu repositories

Edit your source.list file with the following repositories : Add the corresponding key with : Compiz Fusion is really great and – so far – stable enough !

Battery power and Compiz

I decided to drop Compiz since I found out (thanks to the Powertop utility by Intel) that it was power monger. Result : Compiz : 3h30 Metacity : 5h00

Screenlets : widgets for Compiz or Beryl

It is still under heavy development but already nice, usable and quite stable.
I have been using it for 2 weeks now, and did not get any freeze. It just does not have all the options I am sure it will get in the future.

Switched back from Beryl to Compiz

I have run Beryl for months and have seen many huge and nice improvements.

I switched to Beryl soon after the fork from Compiz. At the time, I was on Ubuntu Breezy. The reason of my switch was a major issue with Compiz, making it impossible for my laptop to hibernate. Beryl did it. I could have solved it by myself, maybe, but didn’t have time to dig out desktop things.

Today, it is again some bugs that pushed me to switch back from Beryl to Compiz.