[PLUG] VLC 3.0

[Tomas Kuchta]

What is Compiz?
What is it good for?
Can some explain it in a single digestible sentence?

I've been resisting to ask as not to provoke something unexpected or show
an ignorance; I asked G, as well as compiz.org - but I do not like the BS
Bingo answer meaning nothing.

Without any rational basis, I always thought that it is some sort of trendy
gimmick for shaking windows or such...

So, can someone who knows, break it down for me? What does it do?

Thanks,
T

On Tue, May 8, 2018, 7:34 PM Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> I installed Ubuntu Mate, it let me select my favorite, Compiz. I have all
> of
> the Compiz stuff I like (cube etc) and have plenty of control over it. You
> use
> the Mate Tweak and go in and change the desktop to what you want. Use
> Compiz Config setting manager to set up a bunch of it.
>
> I tried Ubuntu and found the same thing, too restrictive and none of the
> Compiz
> stuff worked. They swapped their mamma for an ass... Unity was ugly but I
> was able to rapidly replace it with Compiz (it was based in part on Compiz)
> and get the screens I wanted, but now kind of like a Linux version of
> windows.
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 6:31 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
> wrote:
>
> > So far, not a fan of 18.04.  I'd been using Gnome Ubuntu, and pretty
> happy
> > with it, but it got eaten by Ubuntu this release and in a test install
> the
> > user interface knobs I came to rely on are both uninstalled out of the
> box
> > and broken once installed. Ubuntu's power trip over a narrowly-conceived
> > user experience hasn't abated significantly afaict.  Ghosts of Unity.
> > Blech.
> >
> > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:42 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 20:48:55 -0800
> > > John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
> > >
> > > >VLC 3.0 has recently been released, but at this time Ubuntians can
> only
> > > >install it via Snap.
> > >
> > > <Much discussion of Snap deleted.>
> > >
> > > Having just dist-upgraded two computers to Ubuntu 18.04 I  find that
> > > both now have VLC 3.0.1. Unfortunately, the bug that causes it to fail
> > > to disable the screensaver is still not fixed.
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