those were such good times! Also, Beryl and Emerald, oh, can’t forget compiz-fusion (iirc). So much lag with lots of bells and whistles enabled, but so many dropped jaws when showing it off. I even gave a speech on it for a speech class. Good times.
For reasons I tried Compiz as a possible replacement for Marco (the default MATE desktop compositor), and I’ve got to say: it’s pretty performant! The animations that used to be so laggy are just smooth on even modest modern hardware. I fell into the rabbit hole of checking what the project was up to and there’s been some bit of drama about how the versions have changed and broken previous plug-ins, there was even a fork and so on… felt just like the good old times, lol
Too bad I’m working from home, I would have loved casually using this when a colleague looks at your screen.
I have arch installed btw
Try this: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5
I was once told symlinking library versions is bad practice, but I never experienced problems (except people on the arch linux forums getting annoyed at you).
the best part in my book
My favourite is the how do I exit vim issue :)
My favorite is the “vim³ isn’t for quitters” response to that issue
That had me giggling as well
Reminds me of one of my favorite FAQ items a grabbed from some README, long ago:
I think my favourite comes from the zlib FAQ:
Link
This gave me flashbacks to 2006/7 and the Compiz cube…
those were such good times! Also, Beryl and Emerald, oh, can’t forget compiz-fusion (iirc). So much lag with lots of bells and whistles enabled, but so many dropped jaws when showing it off. I even gave a speech on it for a speech class. Good times.
For reasons I tried Compiz as a possible replacement for Marco (the default MATE desktop compositor), and I’ve got to say: it’s pretty performant! The animations that used to be so laggy are just smooth on even modest modern hardware. I fell into the rabbit hole of checking what the project was up to and there’s been some bit of drama about how the versions have changed and broken previous plug-ins, there was even a fork and so on… felt just like the good old times, lol
We have a cube these days in Wayfire. And wobbly windows. And burning windows! :D
The “I use arch btw” FAQ entry is hilariously disturbing.
Upvoted for no reason. :)
Too bad I’m working from home, I would have loved casually using this when a colleague looks at your screen.
I was once told symlinking library versions is bad practice, but I never experienced problems (except people on the arch linux forums getting annoyed at you).
I’ve been waiting for this years – no, decades. Finally, a
vimfor 4D people.Quite interesting that this is written in nim, too.