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Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 14, 2006 17:32 UTC (Thu) by ajross (subscriber, #4563)Parent article: Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
As much as I hate to sound like an eye candy fan, does anyone know what the current plans are for this software in popular distributions? Vista will be shipping in just a few months, and I fear we're heading for another round of fanboy wars where the windows folks crow about their new toy, and the linux geeks end up respnding with stuff like "Well, we have that too, you just have to ...".
It makes everyone look bad, basically. Any chance that this is going to "just work" any time in the near future?
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Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 14, 2006 18:00 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Many distributions seem to shipping similar "eye candy" now. AIGLX is part of upstream Xorg 7.1 release and Fedora Core 6 (and the current development tree) includes Compiz which works with AIGLX and compositing is enabled by default in Xorg. Metacity is the default window manager and you turn on Compiz by enabling it in Preferences-=> More Preferences-=> Desktop Effects.
It mostly just works.
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 14, 2006 18:43 UTC (Thu) by quintesse (subscriber, #14569) [Link]
Except if you're using KDE with Fedora I guess :-(
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 14, 2006 18:48 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
There is some work being done on Compiz with KDE too
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/compiz/kde/
You can run compiz --replace to enable it in KDE.
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 14, 2006 19:54 UTC (Thu) by NapalmLlama (guest, #26327) [Link]
Does anybody know if there's any KDE-native configurator yet? A few months ago I went to great lengths ripping all the Gnome stuff out of my system, so I'm very reluctant to install something (like gconf) that's going to pull it back in again. That's about all that's stopping me from giving XGL a whirl right now...
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 15, 2006 4:24 UTC (Fri) by Tashlan (guest, #17277) [Link]
> AIGLX is part of upstream Xorg 7.1 release and Fedora Core 6...> It mostly just works.
True, but don't forget the drivers. I am stuck waiting for compatible 3D drivers for my Nvidia card. :(
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 19, 2006 3:48 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Get a better computer. ;)I've got my GMA950 and it works with AIGLX.
Those Core Duo (or whatever the hell Intel is calling them) are looking very good right now.......
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 29, 2006 4:36 UTC (Fri) by Tashlan (guest, #17277) [Link]
> Get a better computer. ;)> I've got my GMA950 and it works with AIGLX.
I appreciate the sentiment, but replacing a motherboard and CPU to "upgrade" to a less powerful GPU is not an option I'm willing to consider. I don't need new hardware, I need new software. This hardware is capable of fullfilling my needs; only the driver restricts my ability to do so.
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Oct 22, 2006 19:21 UTC (Sun) by ylec (guest, #41252) [Link]
Like Thaslan I'm satisfied with my nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]and I see this working perfectly without any difficulties after an installation standard Nvidia driver from nvidia.com site with Novell SLED 10
With Fedora Core 6 (test 3)x86_64, I spent 2 days:
-> with first finding a driver nvidia wich can compile with the kernel 2.6.18 of FC6, and the only one is the experimental from freshrpms site:
nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9626-1.x86_64.rpm
-> then when compiz is lauched from Desktop-Effects applet or by hands
the OpenGL rotation is there, but there is no decoration to move or resize windows !!!!!!!!!!!
I tried to skip aiglx, and install xorg-x11-server-Xgl from source like in fedora core 5 but the difference of package source is too much with FC6 !
So currently compiz is NOT USABLE with my nvidia card
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 14, 2006 18:51 UTC (Thu) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]
Also, Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) will be released in later October, and it will ship with the basics to support this including the new version of Xorg etc. However, it's considered pre-production quality so I believe the plan is it'll disabled in metacity so you have to install an alternate package or two. I do remember reading an article recently by someone who had tested it, though.
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 14, 2006 19:13 UTC (Thu) by thebluesgnr (guest, #37963) [Link]
AIGLX is considered stable, and so is compiz. The metacity compositor, however, isn't, and that's probably what you remember reading about.
It seems Ubuntu is going to be behind on this, as edgy will still require manual installation of packages and editing of configuration files to get compiz working. Other distributions, like SUSE, Fedora and Mandriva do this all from the GUI.
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 14, 2006 21:17 UTC (Thu) by anonymous21 (guest, #30106) [Link]
Ok, I just remembered that Ubuntu edgy will probably set up AIGLX by default. So it seems the only thing missing is to integrate compiz into a nice preferences capplet that says "Enable effects" or something like that. Unfortunately the user will still have to learn what compiz is, how to install it and how to set it up.
Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)
Posted Sep 15, 2006 16:21 UTC (Fri) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]
I'd be surprised if there weren't alternative packages available for Edgy that did all this for you. Maybe not from Ubuntu main, but in universe or multiverse.