Compositing Goodness
As some of you know, I gave up on MS Windows a long time ago. I have a small partition with Vista on it, but I run openSuse Linux more than 90% of the time. I have also moved into the realm of Composited Desktops. I had been running Beryl, but it merged back into Compiz earlier into the year and became Compiz Fusion. A few nights ago openSuse finally released some packages of Compiz Fusion as Compiz 0.5.2 was released.
The Gods were smiling on me and I had a decent connection, so off I went and got the packages. I uninstalled Beryl, installed Compiz Fusion and began to play with the Geeky goodness. If you thought Mac OSX Dock apps or the semi-transparent windows in Vista were cool, look at this!
Almost all of the functionality of Beryl is there (minus the floating windows in the cube), plus a lot more. My favorite, the Transparent Floating Cube, for my desktop has been slightly improved, I can now draw fire on the desktop as well as using it as an animation. There are new animations and a ton of new plugins that bring all of the eye popping candy of a fully composited desktop to view. I can even run screenlets (Vista Gadget and Mac Dock type applets) on the desktop now without needing a daemon or other frame to run them through.
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