Collabora: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

[Posted July 30, 2019 by corbet]

The Collabora blog announces some ongoing work to integrate Linux desktop environments with head-mounted displays. "In contrast to these approaches xrdesktop aims to integrate into existing Linux desktop environments, eliminating the necessity of running a dedicated compositor for only VR and thus making it usable in current setups. For our initial release, we focused on integration in the most popular Linux desktops, GNOME and KDE, but xrdesktop is designed to be integrated into any desktop. This can be done with Compiz-like plugins as for KWin or patches on the compositor in the case of GNOME Shell. This integration of xrdesktop into the window managers enables mirroring existing windows into XR and to synthesize desktop input through XR actions".

Collabora: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

Posted Jul 31, 2019 13:28 UTC (Wed) by adeel@iiu.edu.pk (guest, #133508) [Link] (1 responses)

Hi everyone, please guide me if this may not be the right forum. We just wanted to inform lwn that we are trying to build a new Linux distribution "iLinux" which would be very easy to use and gui oriented liks MS windows and Apple Mac. Any help and contribution is welcome. it's image based on ubuntu (very minor changes for now) is available at ilinux72612408.wordpress.com/. any help/ comment is welcome.

Collabora: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

Posted Aug 8, 2019 4:08 UTC (Thu) by DeletedUser102083 ((unknown), #102083) [Link]

I'd suggest first purchasing a domain or using a blockchain domain, and second not basing it on Ubuntu if you want something modern. Arch FTW!

Collabora: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

Posted Aug 1, 2019 20:44 UTC (Thu) by admalledd (subscriber, #95347) [Link]

I really look forward to being able to drop-kick windows into the background, or to walk down a virtual "hall" of my terminals running `hollywood`.

(Seriously though, I do want VR window management, and I wonder how I missed these existing before now)