On Saturday 11 February 2006 10:27 am, Forum Gateway wrote:
> Here are some videos from Novell showing the cool 3D effects they've been
> working on as part of XGL, a modified X server that uses OpenGL for drawing
> operations: http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/
> http://www.linuxedge.org/?q=node/55
>
> The effects include a spinning cube when changing desktops or users,

You can get that right away:
http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/


It gets boring after the novelty wears off.


> wobbly
> windows when moving them around, see-through movies, proportional resizing
> of windows when minimizing (similar to OS X's genie effect) and much more.
>


The composite extension on xorg, together with window-shading etc enabled in
KDE does some of these fancy things already.

You'll need a fairly nasty graphics card though. Mine's an ATI Radeon 9250,
and the 100fps OpenGL rendering BARELY meets the requirements for all this
stuff.

> The best part is you can try these out on your computer by downloading XGL
> and a new window manager called Compiz from the openSUSE site:
> http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl
> http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz
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