Must… resist… not to try… Xgl…

Ok, I could not resist and gave in to my curiosity regarding Xgl. Now this is fun! With a ton of HOWTOs and ultra-prompt help on IRC getting Xgl/compiz up and running was much easier than expected… also considering the 0.0.2 version number of compiz (its CVS home).


some tests (click for video)
wobbling clock (click for video)

(click for high-res version)


Plugin-love I would like to see coming to compiz is for example a slight shading of the cube-surfaces when rotating (maybe different colored lights depending on day/night-time). I would have done that myself already if I’d found the time to figure out the inner workings of compiz-plugins. Reading a bit on planet Gnome I found a pretty interesing idea for fine-tuneing the scale- and switcher-plugins sugguested by Philip Langdale here.

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2 Responses to “Must… resist… not to try… Xgl…”

  1. SEJeff Says:
    February 26th, 2006 at 6:52 am

    Could you explain how you got the svg to display on the top? I put an svg file in ~/Themes/Wallpapers/ubuntu-swirls.svg and added the full path of that file to : /apps/compiz/plugins/cube/screen0/options/svgs using gconf-editor. After logging out and back in, I couldn’t get the
    image to display on the top of the cube like in your screenshot.

    Any pointers on how you did it?

  2. MacSlow Says:
    February 26th, 2006 at 8:54 am

    Hi there Jeff!

    When you compile compiz yourself (or get a prepackaged version of it) make sure it’s compiled with –enable-libsvg-cairo. You need libsvg and libsvg-cairo installed for that to work. Both of them can be obtained from here (libsvg) and here (libsvg-cairo). I hope that helps.

    Best regards…

    MacSlow

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