Luis

The program toggles the mode back and forth as you open and close. When you close Shark it will change back to previous windows setting. By changing modes you are only disabling the windows special aero features. It is done to help control the graphics better and is done by many other programs as well. Alot of windows uses turn the aero off anyway to have better performance if they do not have a very good graphics card, or not alot of memory.


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Jason

Am i correct in thinking that Aero is the Vista/W7 Aero? I recall people (not here) poo-pooing Compiz/KDE graphics effects. I know that back in Dec 2006 i was using a cheap 32MB ATI graphics card in my old 800 MHz Celery (umm, Celeron) computer which i bought in Sept 2001. This lowly 2001 computer ran the 2006 ATI card and almost beautifully (tho inconsistently sometimes) ran Compiz.

See some here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4wB3GUemVw

Now, on my 2 GHz HP Pavillion, with an integrated ATI chip, maxing out under 254 MB shared RAM, I get some pretty decent Compiz 3d graphics (desktop becomes a cube, each side being one of my desktops; alternately it can be a sphere, and has Mac-like presentation stuff).

I'm fairly pleased that I can in 3D watch a DVD in Linux and run W7 inside Oracle/Sun XVm (Virtual Box) and run VCP inside W7 (too bad there's not a Linux-friendly version considering that Mac is running a variant of Unix/Linux/FreeBSD), and as long as my VCP file doesn't go past 40 or 60 MB, i can do all that which Vista/W7 Aero demands a high performance graphics card.

If only VCP/Shark were recompiled to work natively in Linux, my only tether to windoze would be Lotus SmartSuite (Lotus Approach, WordPro, particularly, but OpenOffice.org's "Calc" is supplanting Lotus 1-2-3). I wish i could win a post-tax $200 million lotto -- I'd dangle $75,000,000 of it in front of Punch! JUST to tempt it to finally crossing over the line and rapidly porting to Linux and sustaining a independent team on an independent payroll/budget without regard to "market size". Some things should be done for existing business, others for creating new business...

Anyway, i digress.

Careful on looking at Compiz/KDE on Youtube -- some of it's addictive visuals, some funny, some boring, but definitely most are pre-dating whatever vista could do, tho 3rd party devs endowed xp with some Mac/Linux-like GUI capabilities around 2005/6.