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Novell Releases Xgl Enhancements, 'Compiz' Compositing Manager

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Feb 2006 18:37 UTC, submitted by Fusion

"Novell is announcing its contribution of the Xgl graphics subsystem and the 'Compiz' compositing manager to the X.org project. These enhancements open up a whole world of hardware acceleration, fancy animation, separating hardware resolution from software resolution, and more. As a result, Linux desktops will become more usable, end-user productivity will increase, and Linux is firmly positioned at the forefront of client computing technology." Videos and screenshots are included in the press release. And on a related note, Dan Winship of Novell has explained on gnome-desktop-devel why Novell worked on all this behind closed doors-- and this also applies to the striking similarity between Novell's mockups from December and Nat Friedman's videos. The changes made to GNOME will all be released back.

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RE: nice

by Morty on Tue 7th Feb 2006 19:39 UTC in reply to "nice"

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2005-07-06

I was able to get some stuff going in kubuntu

I see from the shots you are using Noatun, what does happen when you enable the Madness visualization plugin?

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RE[2]: nice

by MamiyaOtaru on Tue 7th Feb 2006 20:21 in reply to "RE: nice"

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2005-11-11

I see from the shots you are using Noatun, what does happen when you enable the Madness visualization plugin?

heehee I had never used that plugin. Just like its description says, it moves all the windows around, and with glxcompmgr running they all wobble a little

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