General comments/suggestions on Ubuntu 6.06 specific improvements

First off, I say Ubuntu 6.06 because that is what I am currently using.

Here's the quick run-down:

1. Sound/Video support? It appears to be broken under linux entirely. Killall ESD (a usual trick under Ubuntu) doesn't help.

2. Camera Controls. Under gnome, alt+left clicks/drags just result in moving the window. A revamp of the gui controls also should be done to be more intuitive and easy to use (think google earth controls). I have to hold ctrl+alt+l. mouse and then release ctrl in order to zoom. That's the only way I've figured out how to do that and keep focus on another subject. Ok, scroll also works after the ctrl+alt click.

Still, uniformity would be good across os's or better documentation to indicate changes.

Now another thing. It's minor now, but it will be a huge concern in the next year or two. 3D rendered windows.

I've tried Ubuntu with XGL/Compiz and SL ontop. Frame rates are low. I was expecting that, but that wasn't the problem. Fonts randomly blurred, similar to what happened when I attempted to use it under a recent Vista build. I don't know what the problem is, but concidering that it's occuring under both vista and XGL/Compiz, I think it may be some sort of change in display handling. Perhaps it needs to be resolved by you guys?

Anyone else have similar experiences?

1) No sound support yet, it is only partially programmed into the client but not yet working.
2) Camera controls have to be set not to interfere with your window manager. ctrl alt + mouse will grab and move in world. Hopefully LL will update these so the user can set them to what they want.

Sadly this forum is about all there is for updates and changes. LL must be very busy working with the other clients and doesn't have enough resources to dedicate much to the linux client.

The client does work under XGL/compiz, it works fine itself. XGL/compiz is still buggy and has text rendering issues, however the image in client is controled by the openGL rendering, if any of that is broken it will show up. XGL/compiz may break that for some folks, depends on configuration. It is probably very hard to trace the problem in two alpha release projects and not a good idea to work with. Though, it works perfectly for me so far.

For problems with alt+click, try alt+shift+click. It solves the moving the window problem, plus it means swapping to ctrl+alt+click feels normal too.