QuinnCompiz

[bigtomrodney]

For any of you guys that like XGL eyecandy on your machine you might want to check out the QuinnCompiz packages, they include a few additional plugins and tweaks to the original plugins. Packages are supplied for SUSe and Ubuntu, in fact there are repositories for both distros. There are a few other cool utilities like a tray icon, a gnome-control-center tool for configuring...which I have to add as of a few days ago now has theming support for the window decorations. You can even design your own.

While I'm on the subject...who here is actually running XGL?

[AlexK]

I ran XGL for a while, then got bored and switched it off. I might be tempted to reinstall it once KDE support is better.

[easuter]

i havent even tried XGL yet, since i cant even get my card to run the kde composite engine. i have an ati radeo 9250 with 256mb, but ati doesnt support composite rendering (they said they wouldnt write any supporting drivers until linux "officialy" declared support for composite engines, but that didnt stop nvidia from writing them!).

[praying to the nvidia gods to save me]

[bigtomrodney]

I'd give it a go if I were you easuter, I never got Kcompwin running for more than a few seconds. It usually involved hard reboots too, but XGL runs fine on that same card. The only problem is it doesn't have support for the function that provides the water plugin. My 6200 handles it very well though, everything rockets along on that. Even playing multiple movies fullscreen, semi-transparent. One of the main reasons I'm still running it full time is because the overhead is so low on my system.