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Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)

Posted Sep 14, 2006 18:51 UTC (Thu) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)
In reply to: Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal) by ajross
Parent article: Animate the Desktop with Xgl and Compiz (Linux Journal)

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.

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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.