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Yes! guys and gals, our beloved window manager is kicking ass in composite land. There’s a new branch on metacity subversion were developers are working on composite features for metacity. So far we have, transparency, shadow and ALT+tab Godness, and now that I’m running a composite WM i can use the nice MAC OS X like dock bar, AWN. All this without the lag (and CPU masacre) introduced in compiz-fusion when scrolling applications.

If you want to install the development branch you can do it this way, first check out the code form gnome subversion,

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/metacity/branches/iains-blingtastic-bucket-o-bling/ metacity

(you will need subversion package for this, if you don’t have it just, sudo apt-get install subversion)

then change to the metacity dir and for the next steps you will need some libraries so install the following packages,

sudo apt-get install gnome-common build-essential autoconf gnome-devel libtool

(hmm…I’m probably missing something….)

cd metacity

/bin/bash autogen.sh

./configure --enable-compositor

make

Now go and edit the following this key /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager,

gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager true

Now you can dotwo things, one just test it

./src/metacity --replace

And the second one is run a make install to install it system wide, but this is totally optional.

If you want to run it at start up, you just need to modify the key on /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager

And i could finish the post here, but you will kill me if i dont show a screenshot :P, so here it’s

UPDATE:  This branch was merged in trunk and it’s now deprecated, you should download the code from there now.

Several people asked me recently (in different situations) about what are the sites that i read/visit on a daily basis (most times hourly :P). So here it goes the list,

• Planet GNOME - This is my favorite one, great hackers post here.
• Unofficial Planet Python - great planet.
• Planet DEBIAN - You can find some good posts here also.
• Planet Ubuntu - My distro plane.
• Universe Gentoo - The “distro i would love to have time to ” planet
• Monologue - Planet of mono developer.
• DIGG - im getting bored of this one, but from time to time you find a great article.
• Slashdot - i dont read it this one as frequent as before, but i enjoy reading the comments.
• LinuxToday - Quite good in selecting linux news.
• Phoronix - Mostly hardware reviews.
• Reddit - better than digg in some aspects but very similar idea.

That’s the list, there are other sites that i visit from time to time like lenovo blogs or planet openbox. Also to the list above you can add my family/friends blog that you can find in my blogroll.

top - 14:41:21 up 5 days, 2:42, 4 users, load average: 14.01, 11.53, 6.11
Tasks: 169 total, 3 running, 165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 16.5% us, 9.4% sy, 17.3% ni, 29.6% id, 27.2% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2073540k total, 356248k used, 1717292k free, 6292k buffers
Swap: 2048276k total, 85704k used, 1962572k free, 111360k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
27806 root 35 10 12892 6044 2824 R 97 0.3 52:26.53 emacs

Yes a simple text editor was killing the box

Jajaj look at this:

Bart ain’t stupid but some times he deserves this and more.

So today i was googling for files installed by a specific linux rootkit and i found this:

http://www.google.com.uy/interstitial?url=http://www.antiserver.it/backdoor-rootkit/

quite funny.