eye-candy rejoicing with compiz

While I gave up on adding customizable drop-shadows, compiz coding-prodigy David Reveman did not. Hot off the CVS-repository comes compiz with tweakable drop-shadows… at last *g* Watch this:

thumbnail of colored drop-shadows

The only thing missing from the available parameters to tweak are maybe shadow-color and different sets of parameters for certain window-types. At least a distinction between focused and non-focused windows would be handy. With the current version of compiz you can tune…

  • shadow_offset_x
  • shadow_offset_y
  • shadow_opacity
  • shadow_radius

to suit your liking. These settings are used for all windows right now.

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6 Responses to “eye-candy rejoicing with compiz”

  1. saracen Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 4:06 pm

    hey macslow, what settings do you have on that screenshot?

  2. MacSlow Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 4:40 pm

    That’s…

    shadow_offset_x = 5
    shadow_offset_y = 5
    shadow_opacity = 0.75
    shadow_radius = 30

  3. saracen Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 9:20 pm

    thanks for the settings. On a side note - any idea on how/when the tearing issue is going to get resolved for Xgl/Compiz? It’s the only thing that really bothers me right now during regular use.

  4. MacSlow Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 10:38 pm

    no clue

  5. Matt Says:
    May 15th, 2006 at 12:16 am

    How did you get that orange as the titlebar color? does that happen automatically in gnome, or is it a setting?

  6. MacSlow Says:
    May 15th, 2006 at 4:45 am

    @Matt: compiz grabs that from the set gtk+-theme itself. If I recall the code of gnome-window-decorator.c correctly, it’s the color from bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] that compiz uses for the titlebar.

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