Compiz Fusion
Compiz Fusion is the result of the re-unification of the Beryl-project
and the community around the Compiz
Window Manager. It seeks to provide
an easy and fun-to-use windowing environment, allowing use of the
graphics hardware to provide impressive effects, amazing speed and
unrivalled usefulness. Technically, it is an OpenGL compositing manager
that use GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap for binding redirected top-level
windows to
texture objects.
Compiz Fusion is a project that aims to add more functionality
to
Compiz
by extending it with more plugins, tools and libraries. It uses
Compiz
as a base. Among the additions it makes are tools such as
CompizConfig Settings Manager, libcompizconfig, and a number of plugins.
It has a flexible plug-in system and it is designed to run
well on most graphics hardware.
Compiz Fusion is not intended to be a replacement for Compiz.
Features include:
- Hardware-accelerated window management and desktop
compositing
through OpenGL, using rendering paths like AIGLX, Xgl and direct
rendering solutions on some hardware
- Powerful and flexible plugin interface, allowing almost
limitless extension possibilities
- ARGB rendering, allowing true transparency when the
applications support ARGB visuals
- Compiz
Configuration System
- A library which offers transparent support for gconf,
kconf and ini settings storage
- A GUI Plugin Configuration Manager, CCSM
- Community and developer contributed plugins
- Animation: animation effects for window events
- Benchmark: plugin to gauge performance
- Bs: brightness and saturation control
- Crashhandler: crash handling through gdb and recovery
- Cube Gears: 3D animated gears in the center of the cube
- Cube Reflection: Draws a reflection of the cube
- Group And Tabs: group windows and access them through a
tab bar similar to the well-known feature in browsers
- Negative: inverts color of a window or screen
- Put: moves windows using key binds
- Reflection: watermarks window decorations, similar to
Aero-Glass by default
- Screenshot: mode to capture screen regions with the mouse
- Shift Switcher: Provides Flip 3d and Cover Switching of
windows
- State: set default opacity and other options for types of
windows
- Trailfocus: unfocused windows fade with time
- Mousegestures: advanced mouse gestures to control effect
- Window Decorators, which provide window frames and
titlebars
- GTK Window Decorator - Window decorator that supports
GNOME
Metacity themes
- KDE
Window Decorator - Window decorator that supports KDE
KWin themes
- Emerald - Window decorator that is custom themeable and
supports full Alpha blended themes
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