X and Eye Candy

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 13 19:48:54 UTC 2006


Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've downloaded and booted a copy of the Kororaa distribution, and I 
> highly recommend that others here have a look at this glimpse at the 
> future of the open source desktop.
> 
> This is a live CD distro (it _can't_ install on your HD), based on 
> Gentoo, for systems with NVidea or ATI cards that can do hardare-based 
> OpenGL. This distro essentially demos the XGL hardware acceleration 
> stuff that Novell contributed not long ago, and it is really something. 
> Have a look at the demos a http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/ 
> and/or then see them for yourself by booting Kororaa. While this 
> particular live CD is based on GNOME (which is funny for a distro whose 
> name starts with "K"), I'm looking forward to seeing this applied to a 
> KDE-based system. It adds all kinds of interesting features *and* runs 
> faster than regular X, by taking advantage of hardware video acceleration.
> 
> In a similar vein here, has anyone here installed either KBFX or 
> SuperKaramba? If so, what did you think of them?

I've tried using XGL on KDE with transparency -- it works rather well. 
Most documentation on it is written for Gnome, but it works.

Superkaramba is great -- take a look at my desktop here:
http://jamonation.com/images/snapshot6.jpg

KBFX Vista is the custom Kmenu button, mtaskbar2 is the taskbar applet 
that shows a preview of this very message vs. just the plain text of 
taskbar v1. Superkaramba should be rather self evident.

Sorry if the quality is a little off -- I've scaled down to 1280x960 
from my normal desktop resolution.

Has anyone tinkered with AIGLX yet? It sounds like it will be a more 
practical eye candy solution vs. replacing xserver (if I understand 
correctly, XGL is an entire xserver replacement?).

Jamon

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