As some of you may have read from my blog earlier, I was complaining about the “loss” of emerald without notification to the user community. However, during the 11th hour it seems as though David Reveman really pulled through.

You can check out the following bug to see Davids remarks:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431846

Which I’ll include here:

A compiz package fix that will allow emerald to work properly without any
changes has been submitted to X11:Compiz.
I also submitted a patch to the emerald package that will allow it to work with
remote desktops (nomad) or without the previously mentioned update to compiz.

If anyone has a working Compiz on 11.1 (from the installation source, or Factory) please test out emerald, and let me know if it is working for you. I have it working, but I am still using the packages in XGL, which do not include the NOMAD patch and wouldn’t be a correct representation since the NOMAD patch caused the emerald regression.

Many thanks to David R for taking the ball and running with it. Now we just have to find out if there will be a long term maintainer.

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