I got tired of Gentoo on my installed laptop, so I dove in for the Gutsy RC instead. I like the changes from Feisty, but if there's one thing that seriously bugs me, it's the alt-tab/application switcher functionality. A lot of times I use alt-tab/alt-shift-tab for quick switching, but Compiz seems to like to do all sorts of flash fade, opacity, etc. effects on it, which is rather distracting. I turned up the brightness to 100% to stop the fading, and it's less distracting, but not by much.
For some reason, the beta also shipped with alt-shift-tab broken (switch to previous window in the list). CompizConfig wasn't very helpful in letting me bind it, either, so I looked to gconf-editor to solve my problems. Funny enough, there was an entry under apps.config.plugins.switcher.allscreens.options named prev_key that was set to alt-shift-tab. Strange. There was also a prev_button entry that was set to "Disabled", so I changed that to "
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I've been running compiz and gutsy for a while now and they fix new problems like that every day. Keep in mind your running a beta release of a distro with and even more beta piece of software.
Anyway, I like hot corners to switch desktops but I can't seem to get that to work in even gconf.
IT'S SO CUTE :D
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Well, Gutsy has been out of beta for a long time, but Compiz STILL does the distracting flashing. Unfortunately, if you turn the app switcher off, you lose all app switching functionality >(.
Yeah, there's ways to somewhat reduce the flashing effect. I just turned off Compiz instead for the normal alt-tab switcher, since I couldn't figure out if there was a way to change only that (my guess is no, if it's anything like the way Vista's Aero/classic themes work).
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