X.org Making Fast Progress

prisonernumber7 writes "X.org is showing a lot of progress! The combination of the XFixes extension, Damage extension, Composite extension and XEvIE (X Event Interception Extension) present in X11R6.8 present user interface designers with a wide range of here-to-fore difficult to achieve possibilities. What does this mean for the enduser? That's window shadows and window shadows within windows as well as true translucency for the OSS community. Good samples of Gnome and KDE desktops with drop shadows, and so on can be found here, here, here, here, here, translucency here, here and here, and its use on handhelds running Linux."

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xinerama?

[horatio]

Any ideas how to get a matrox dual head card (G400) working with x.org? :/ Worked fine with xfree86 and the matrox supplied drivers, but not since I upgraded to FC2, which includes x.org. Time to buy a new card?

He will write no book before its time

[HBI]

However, Orwell's Animal Farm is a bit more interesting.

Maybe the Martians stole Welles' text.

Re:He will write no book before its time

[HBI]

Ye gods, the mods are stupid around this place.

"I didn't get it, so mod it offtopic!"

What is this screenshot running?

[techmuse]

Sorry for my ignorance. This screenshot was awesome! Can someone tell me what was used to create a desktop with this OSX-like appearance?

http://img3.exs.cx/img3/6458/screen_lynucs_17594 09 500411796a9ba106_1.jpg

theme?

[markybob]

anyone know what themes are used on http://ruinaudio.com/Xorg-xcompmgr.png ?

Who cares about twitter?

[twitter]

Out of interest, what type of company do you work for? Do you work for an open source company?

I'm a student, again. Entergy was the last big company I worked for. In the last year or so, I've done independent consulting and worked tech/retail/wholesale. A month or so ago, I worked the chain gang of a Windoze XP upgrade at a bank and thought it was the biggest cluster fuck I'd ever seen. I've done programming for two university research labs and nuclear transport. I'm now a grad student in Health Physics and hope to get into medical imaging.

I got into free software because g77 worked better than a commercial package that set me back $200. While using it, I noticed that the programming tools were better all around. Networking was also better than most commercial software I was using. Since then, free GUIs have vastly overtaken the commercial ones and everything else seems to have held onto it's lead.