Submitted by After Xgl, Novell now also released Compiz, their OpenGL compositing manager. From the readme file: “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.”
Excellent news.. show me the ebuilds
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-386012.html (check the newer pages)
Hanno Böck made an Xgl guide a while ago: http://dev.gentoo.org/~hanno/
It’s slightly out of date, but he has updated his overlay: http://dev.gentoo.org/~hanno/
Compiz doesn’t support KDE yet, but you can still play around with most of the effects.
Edited 2006-02-09 21:00
Hanno Boeck has just updated his Xgl+Compitz portage overlay. Still has some bugs to pound out though.
http://www.hboeck.de/item/282
It has a flexible plug-in system and it is designed to run well on most graphics hardware.
I haven’t seen any performance tests anywhere yet. Does anyone know how this will run on Intel graphics and ATI DRI drivers? I think it is supposed to be very lightweight, but it would be nice to see this confirmed. I assume all the demos and videos we’ve been seeing have been using NVidia’s proprietary driver.
haven’t seen any performance tests anywhere yet. Does anyone know how this will run on Intel graphics and ATI DRI drivers? I think it is supposed to be very lightweight, but it would be nice to see this confirmed. I assume all the demos and videos we’ve been seeing have been using NVidia’s proprietary driver.
May be posted in other locations, but check out:
http://www.opensuse.org/xgl
Near the bottom, below “Hardware Independent Issues”, they’ve got some info on hardware support including ATI and Intel. I would imagine the information should be distro-agnostic?
Good catch. Looks like:
ATI/Intel open source drivers – slow for now, but will be “OK” soon. Hopefully “OK” means it will be fast enough.
Nvidia open source drivers – no 3d support = bad
ATI/Nvidia proprietary drivers – good performance, but a couple of issues that you need to be careful about.
Does any body have correct links, or are the servers just out to lunch?
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Seems to have moved:
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/compiz/
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-commit/2006-February/006…
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looks interesting
i don’t like the fact this is a seperate window manager – kwin should add these functions, like they did with composite.
aah, they will
It’s a patch for xorg. It has nothing to do with a window manager albeit kwin, or anything else (unless I”m missing something).
Compiz has to act as a window manager, apparently for some of the effects to work:
http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl#Use_compiz_as_your_window_manager
It’s a patch for xorg. It has nothing to do with a window manager albeit kwin, or anything else (unless I”m missing something).
No, they’re kept in the xorg cvs but it looks like they’ve patched compiz and the gnome window decoration to work with KDE, so it would have to replace kwin.
Still, I’d be surprised if the team KDE hasn’t already started evaluating the code changes necessary for either kwin or kcompmgr from when the xgl updates were first released last month. I mean, this is KDE we’re talking about…
looks interesting
i don’t like the fact this is a seperate window manager – kwin should add these functions, like they did with composite.
aah, they will
This was the biggest release all year for me. The recent XGL codedump was awesome but this new release gets rid of Metacity (love to do that) and boring Xserverness all in one jump.
Anyone that has not seen XGL composite managing at work….its addictive. Its like the desktop comes alive in a way pictures not video can describe!
Lol we all know you’re addicted to eyecandy… I’m still waiting for a new entry on your eye candy blog about all this new exciting stuff.
Those cvs.freedesktop links are 404ing right now.
But there’s a vide… sorry, an impressive vid… no, a totally mindblowing video that makes me drool here: http://www.linuxedge.org/?q=node/58 (It’s about 50Mb)
(It was on one of the Gentoo forums linked above, IIRC)
The video is somewhat blurry but looks incredible anyway.