Is there an alternative to compiz?

Question

Can I find a good replacement for compiz? Compiz in 11.04 with unity is laggy

Solution 1

You can start with Ubuntu classic (no effect) that use metacity as window manager.

But this means to not have unity.

Solution 2

The only alternative to compiz that I know is kwin.

Solution 3

If you are using unity 2d, you have many other options

Openbox : A very lightweight WM. Used by default in LXDE

Fluxbox : Yet another Lightweight WM

Awesome : A lightweight tiled WM

And many others.

Comments

[Chriskin]

Gnome-shell is laggy on my rather new laptop (i5 2.5ghz, nvidia 330m) - it's probably not even close to "ready" yet.

[Scott Severance]

kwin isn't so good in a Gnome environment. kwin is designed for KDE.