[Xastir] Unuseable tiny dialog boxes on Aspire One under Ubuntu 8.04

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:47:03AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
> > This *really* needs to be in the FAQ and README.
> 
> This bit about compiz could probably go in the Xastir Manual wiki
> page under a new "Problems" chapter or some-such too.

We have a FAQ in the source tree, and it's installed by "make install", the
info should be there, too.

> Tom:  If you don't mind I'll add some of your words below to a few
> docs using the Johnny Appleseed approach (sprinkling it liberally
> everywhere).
> 
> 
> > The issue is the interaction between Motif and compiz, which in some versions
> > of Ubuntu is turned on and off with a "Desktop Effects" menu item.  They made
> > the default "on" several releases ago.  Compiz is what enables eye-candy
> > effects like animated window opening/closing, 3-d effects, and so forth.  I
> > don't know if there is any solution other than turning off those effects.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is a Gnome window manager specific problem?
> Can it happen in KDE or in other window managers as well?  I know it
> doesn't happen in FVWM2...

Do you run compiz with fvwm2?  I don't think that works.

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