by Dave | Jun 3, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I’ve had lots of trouble since migrating to openSUSE with playing video files of nearly any kind. Running it in the terminal just results in errors usually including something like x11 video output error: X11 request 141.19 failed with error code 11: BadAlloc...
by Dave | May 23, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Even though my Macbook Pro has an excellent graphics card, I still got a warning when I turned on Desktop Effects (Compiz). They work but I had (I think) more than my share of what seemed to be Compiz related crashes. But when things crash, the best thing to do is to...
by Dave | Dec 20, 2008 | Tinker Blog
Games and Compiz are not friends. It seems you basically have to disable your good looking environment just to play good looking games. Ironic. Anyway, thanks to Tombuntu, I was able to install Fusion Icon which is a system tray icon that lets you enable or disable...
by Dave | Dec 2, 2008 | Tinker Blog
I love the Wobbly Windows in Compiz. I know a lot of people don’t. Anyway- the big thing that annoyed me was the snapping to an edge. If I have a normal window and try to drag it, the window does a kind of stretch from the edge until it finally snaps off. I...
by Dave | Nov 21, 2008 | Tinker Blog
Oh at last! Ever since I installed I’ve been frustrated that any video seems to have major flicker issues. This is apparently caused by having the special Desktop Effects (from Compiz) enabled. kevinmedina was nice enough to share the solution he found somewhere...
