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Submitted by klattimer on Sun, 2005-02-13 10:56. FreeDesktop.org
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Introducing gcompmgr, a gui tool for tweaking shadows/fades etc... I wrote gcompmgr after finally getting composite working well this weekend. Its a very early erm, quick and dirty hack, but it works well. Offers for anyone to contribute are open ;)

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server still down by Anonymous George

Cant download gcompmgr

Submitted by saxa on Fri, 2005-02-18 05:03.

I saw on the blog that there is gcompmgr-0.1 after clicking on the download link it reopens the blog with another screen where you can download gcompmgr-0.2 but clicking on that download link it only loops and reopens the blog !!!
Are there any mirrors ???

Rgds
Saxa

You CAN download gnome-settings visualeffects

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-02-18 05:06.

Try clicking on the download for gnome-settings visual effects 0.4 (current release)

Karl Lattimer,

BTW: I have redirected all the old obsolete downloads to the blog to try and get people to download the correct file.

didn't work for me

Submitted by foo on Thu, 2005-02-17 16:53.

I tried using it but it would just say "no process killed". It wasn't clear to me if I was supposed to start xcompmgr myself first or not. I tried it both ways and it didn't help. If I had xcompmgr started already then gcompmgr would kill it and then do nothing. Looks cool though.

0.4 is out, try that

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-02-18 04:39.

0.4 has been released and fixes most of it.

Please report any bugs to me via email atm... karl at qdh dot org dot uk

There are currently 2 issues I know about,
1. The panel setting is inverted, my bad... (please live with this until 0.5)
2. The gnome session entries are not generated as yet, if someone provided a patch I would be very grateful.

Karl Lattimer,

gcompmgr/gnome settings viusal effects by Anonymous George
Gnome settings visual effects by Anonymous George
Slashdotted? by Anonymous George

Footnoted!?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-02-16 14:22.

Not on Slashdot at all ;-)
But seems to be "footnoted". What a nice new term.

mm, still down... doesn't loo by Anonymous George

its up. article text:

Submitted by fizze on Thu, 2005-02-17 02:52.

its up.

article text:

I've been playing with x.org composite for the last couple of days. This guide explains what I've done to get my desktop to look how it does, shadows, cursors etc... and work the way it does, fades, animations and so on...

This all uses the x.org composite extention and a few hacks, we're gonna be using xcompmgr and a nvidia graphics card.

First off, to set up composite you'll need the nvidia driver installed,
you can get this from www.nvidia.com, set these values in your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf;

Section "Extensions"

Option "Composite" "Enable"

Option "RENDER" "Enable

EndSection

Section "Device"

Identifier "Videocard0"

Driver "nvidia"

Option "RenderAccel" "true"

# If you're feeling especially brave...

#Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

VendorName "Videocard vendor"

BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"

EndSection

Then download xcompmgr from here, I don't know where I originally got it
from but search and yeshall find. Start xcompmgr to test your
configuration, this is prone to crash so don't expect the earth.

$ xcompmgr -c -r 5 -f

I've written a nice GUI to tweak the settings, i'm not quite finished it yet and would like some assistence. If anyone is interested in joining me in advancing my gnome preferences dialog (gcompmgr) for this I'd be glad to hear from you email me at karl @ qdh dot org dot uk.

you can download gcompmgr here

I havn't quite figured out anjuta completely yet, so the dist is a little broken, it should work OK with the defaults to /usr/local, it also should have xcompmgr in the path. The app is in working order and isn't bad for a 4 hour hack.

its up. by Anonymous George