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Compiz Window Manager Released

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2006-02-10 12:29. Novell

Compiz, the OpenGL window/composite manager, has been released following David Reveman's talk at XDevconf yesterday.

"Compiz is an OpenGL compositing manager that use GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap for binding redirected top-level windows to texture objects. It has a flexible plug-in system and it is designed to run well on most graphics hardware."

Also, a new video demonstrating Compiz on XGL is now online. The video displays numerous previously unseen effects such as 3D objects on the desktop and animated backgrounds.

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debian packages ?

Submitted by xav on Sat, 2006-02-18 11:05.

Does anyone know where to get debian packages ? Battlehorse packages are for Ubuntu only.

Far... Out..

Submitted by Twigman on Tue, 2006-02-14 19:28.

I've been running xgl and compiz for 2 days now. Wow...

The only time I get a crash is if I press shift-backspace, apart from that it is rock solid. The features in compiz are very very usable. I can't wait until this is part of a standard linux desktop.

I'm running it on Ubuntu Dapper with debs that I got from:

http://battlehorse.homelinux.net/w/Wiki.jsp?page=Xgl

This stuff seriously complements the gnome desktop beautifully.

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