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- JonathanTS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+44Compiz Fusion looks like the real deal. Sweet to be a Linux user right now.
- aariel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Well, it's not that it wouldn't work out of the box per se. Nvidia's drivers are still proprietary and closed, and that makes distributing them "out of the box" with Linux a legal fuzzy area. However, ATI recently opened the door to open source drivers by announcing that they would open their hardware specifications, so Schestowitz is pointing out the fact that it is now possible for Linux distributions to support fully accelerated graphics on an ATI card using a GPL driver that could be distributed "out of the box."
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12With ATI's new driver, this is very likely to work out of the box (at least in Hardy Heron... don't know about any other distributions that commit themselves to eye candy enabled by default).
- AppleDesigner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8As a suffer of ADD I welcome the ADD plugin whole heartedly. What was I saying? Oh yeah...its a nice feature.
- OHiggins, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9That also leaves you more suspectible to new problems.
- neko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I keep reading that codename as Handy Heroin...
- sublime, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5http://lists.compiz-fusion.org/pipermail/community/2007-August/000091.html
http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/3d_desktop_compiz_fusion_0 - embarcelona2007, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Why wouldn't Compiz Fusion work out of the box with Nvidia? (That's the card I currently have and would like to try compiz fusion)
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Nice. They even go as far as having support for ADD.
- shakin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It gets boring? I'm not sure it's supposed to be fun.
In general, users first notice the special effects, but there is a lot more to Compiz Fusion than effects. At the moment I'm finding that the 'group' plugin is very handy for creating tabs from multiple windows and flipping between them. - starkes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5your mom is fun....for about an hour
- manogamez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4A video of COMPIZ Fusion in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ImW0-MgR8I - SagaLhan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Buried for posting something negative in a compiz fusion thread.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I don't think he's saying he had a problem, it sounds like he was just wondering if it will work for nVidia.
I had a few issues with my GeForce 8600, but with a little tweaking it works just fine.
Compiz rocks. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's coming through sporadically, refresh and be patient.
- braydonf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Amazing work! Can't wait to get this running on my machine :)
- ardnut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Just enable reflections, shows how to do it in the article :)
- deaftly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3aww, is somebody upset this FREE os is looking better then windows and mac every day?
- bobbybobington, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2your just jealous lol
- ordminute, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Ugh that desktop background makes it hard to know what I'm looking at.
At first I thought there were about 80 windows in those screenshots. - shak3d0wn, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4awful desktop background! Wasn't this about eye candy?
- edzilla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You've got mandriva.
- smartmlp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3It looks nice, but they need to hire a new graphic designer, the icons and parts of the GUI look aged.
- vh1`, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2except infinitely more open and configurable
plus a few more effects as well - ratsg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Or a Solaris user. Downloaded Sun packages and I agree, its pretty sweet.
- ilovenicotine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I concur, Sabayon pushes for eye candy 100 times more. It's not orange by default for one thing.
- frederoil, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Perfect for mouth-breathing losers who want to watch their desktop twirl and spin in a circle. Perfect for those that are easily distracted by flashing lights. Ooooh! Look at all the pretty colors! Look at my desktop move around! OMG!!
- jsully, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1With my 7600GT I also needed to set a flag in xorg.conf - specifically Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" under the screen section. Without that I get no window borders. Otherwise it's pretty painless.
- Randinn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I can only guess just how dumb you really are....
- mrgono3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1another video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w
and my friend is running a blog on the whole compiz thing here: http://fusioncast.blogspot.com/ - aldenhg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I almost never have any problems. When I do, it's usually an X restart or a reboot from being fixed. There's been one release since the first official that I found too buggy to use, but the next build fixed all the problems.
- ArthurSucks, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3What an angry Troll you are.
- jonesin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Anybody have a clue how to actually set it up? I got 0.5.3 on gutsy and enabled compiz through the desktop effects command but this compizconfig settings window does nothing. There doesn't seem to be any effect it has on anything in my setup and no noticeable "apply" button either. Even when I enabled compiz through the compiz --replace command I still wasn't able to change the effects through the config
- ardnut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've installed compiz fusion in kubuntu, works great but I don't get the icons in the "CompizConfig Settings Manager". I'm not talking about icons on the desktop, etc... I talking about the small icons that appear next to each section... http://lunapark6.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/compizconfig-settings-manager02.jpg
Is there some gnome/compiz icon package I'm missing? - sn0wmis3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1screenlets themselves are not part of compiz, but with compiz you get the ability to make anything you want only show up on the widget layer, for example I have a transparent shell on my desktop, and within compiz settings manager, I can set the start coordinates of the shell, the size,force it to the widget layer, and then make it sticky so it shows up on every desktop. I followed this guide which i saw on digg a while back:
http://ubuntu-unleashed.blogspot.com/2007/08/howto-completely-transparent-shell-on.html
Screenlets get associated with compiz because they are basically the only real choice for desktop widgets, I know gnome has those gdesklet things, but screenlets are way nicer and are built to utilize compositing. - ilovenicotine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Am I the only one who wonders why they haven't given us the ability to use multiple wallpapers on the cube?
- tech10171968, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1bobbybobington may be more right than he knows. I usually hear these gripes and complaints coming mostly from Windows adherents. My theory: Mr. Vista just dropped a large sum of money on his shiny new OS (and another princely sum for a machine with enough horsepower to run it). He's probably been thinking he's the "cat's meow" until he spys someone else running a completely free OS on hardware with (sometimes) much lower specs - and not only is this "lesser" machine and (in his opinion) "lesser" OS capable of the very same GUI effects, but it can also do things Vista can't even touch right now. Our Vista user is probably feeling like a dick right now, so he starts bashing the competition and talking about "productivity", "but I can run more apps!", or "but it's useless!".
- sn0wmis3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i booted into the latest gutsy live disc on my laptop with an ati xpress 1250 and it loaded compiz fusion by default with no extra video card setup, saweet
- aldenhg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I almost never have any problems. When I do, it's usually an X restart or a reboot from being fixed. There's been one release since the first official that I found too buggy to use, but the next build fixed all the problems.
- Sabretou, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Compiz Fusion is already pretty cool, in my opinion, but it's stability is absolutely terrible.
- oobuntu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1hmm now you mention it, it don't either. i'm using kubuntu too.
- Sabretou, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, I use standard Ubuntu and Compiz seems to run somewhat sluggish. It also seems to crash when it is shutting down, and if you head over to Ubuntu's Desktop Effects and Customization forums, you'll see plenty of other guys having stability problems with Compiz Fusion.
- funkymunky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I set up compiz-fusion on an nvidia card (7300) with no problem. It does not however work out of the box. Out of the box (for the time being) the nv driver is used with nvidia. You simply need to install the proprietary nvidia driver which is rather easy with LCD monitors (can get a little complex with crt's with timing issues and the like trying to configure xorg to work right with your monitor). Anyway on my current setup nvidia 7300 with 19inch widescreen samsung 941BW I installed it then added nvidia driver then selected generic lcd 1440x900 and poof it was ready. Then added the compiz-fusion repo and click compiz-fusion to install and poof it worked with no problems.
- thecheatah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I dont see ANYTHING new in that description. Also I am already running 0.5.2. I thought they came out with a NEWER version :-(.
- funkymunky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Although some of the features are copied from osx, osx looks very old in direct comparison.
- sn0wmis3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1same here i use both ubuntu and kubuntu on 2 separate machines, and on kubuntu the icons are missing
- funkymunky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Desktop effects and compiz --replace are different. Desktop effects is a stripped set of compiz. Did you install compiz-fusion by enabling the repository on the compiz-fusion site? if so always use the compiz --replace command. I use compiz --replace -c emerald so the the window decorations are handled by emerald. I put that line in the autostart so it comes on by default.
- greatcaffeine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Some of the older problems might get fixed faster in nightly builds, but then you're stuck dealing with the plethora of new bugs that pop up.
- MrViklund, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Looks fantastic!
- bowe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Because the desktop wallpaper is part of the Desktop Environment. Compiz is not a desktop environment. I think some people have been able to come up with hacks that work around it.
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