Do do do the funky gibbon
Further to my last post, after some more mucking about with Gutsy on the home machine.
The audio problem with Rhythmbox seems to go away if I turn the volume down a little from the default. This is using the application’s volume control, not the system one, which is what I’d been using previously. Presumably it’s doing its own processing and at 100% it is distorting.
Warcrack runs pretty well even with Compiz enabled. Framerates are about what I was getting with Fiesty, possibly a little higher, and it works nicely with Expo mode as you can see in this screenshot. The one flaw so far is that very occasionally — and I’m not sure what triggers this — the Gnome panels will insist on sitting over the top of the Warcrack display and the only way to stop it is to quit the game and restart.
The other small Warcrack annoyance is that the freeze-on-exit bug found in the last few months’ of Wine builds is back. It’s fixed in the current Wine, but Gutsy is using something slightly older. Not a huge problem, and I expect that once Gutsy goes release the WineHQ people will start providing binary packages for it.
One final exciting bug: the title-bar on Firefox (so far) is sometimes corrupted. You can see what I mean here. If it’s forced to refresh (e.g., switch windows) it is redrawn correctly. Most often happens when I’ve switched back to Firefox via Expo mode.
In any event, I am broadly happy using the Gutsy beta both at home and at work, and we will probably install it on my partner’s new machine when that arrives this week. She’s seen what Compiz can do and really likes the look of Expo, Scale, and Enhanced Zoom.
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