Can I find a good replacement for compiz? Compiz in 11.04 with unity is laggy
4 Answers
You can start with Ubuntu classic (no effect) that use metacity
as window manager.
But this means to not have unity.
The only alternative to compiz that I know is kwin.
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kwin isn't so good in a Gnome environment. kwin is designed for KDE. May 8, 2011 at 3:39
No, Unity is a plugin for Compiz. You could try unity 2D or Ubuntu classic. There is also Gnome-Shell which uses mutter. That is suppose to be less resource intensive.
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Gnome-shell is laggy on my rather new laptop (i5 2.5ghz, nvidia 330m) - it's probably not even close to "ready" yet.– ChriskinMay 7, 2011 at 16:35