Compiz on John Stowers

Beryl - The Compiz Fork

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:38:26 +0000

This post is a little rant on the compiz fork (beryl ) and on forks in general.

When I hear people say that “the fork is good because the two goals are different” I bow my head in shame. David R wants the same things as Quinn, a rocking WM/DE.

Its sad that now the fork has “started” there is no going back (in the short term) - the projects will onlycontinue to diverge. Compiz has just gained a whole bunch of features in cvs (pane plugin, multi-head architecture stuff, support for metacity themes) and David has started being more active on the mailing list. Quinn and co. bought this fork on too quickly, sucumbing to every request on the compiz.net forums, and adding poor quality code and hacks all over the show. I mean there has not even been an official compiz release yet!, why fork, how many years did it take to get a solid DE and people are impatient over compiz, a young project with no official release?

Updated XGL and Compiz

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:22:47 +0000

With the great help of those on the Ubuntu forums XGL/Compiz is looking greater than ever. The Updated Compiz adds the opacity plugin and darkens the background for the expose effects. But better than that, the Updated XGL removes all the flicker that I was seeing.

XGL on i915

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:02:02 +0000

Well, all the cool kids are doing it so I thought that I better have a go. XGL and compiz run on my integrated i915 video without problems and I am amazed at the speed and quality for pre-alpha software.

After all of the hassle of building Compiz and friends (excluding XGL) from CVS I found this and this (includes new opacity plugin).