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Compiz Window Manager Released

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2006-02-10 12:29. Novell
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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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It can work with GNOME right

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2006-02-10 17:17.

It can work with GNOME right now by replacing metacity - GNOME's official window manager. Running the command "compiz --replace ..." will replace metacity with compiz immediately. However, long-term, there will likely be some effort to merge the development of metacity and compiz. Soreon recently checked a new compositor into metacity CVS - under the spif2 branch, I believe - and that work, along with the work the metacity devs have done on window management policy, shouldn't and probably won't go to waste.

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