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X.org X11 Server Release 6.8

Posted by timothy on from the to-display-in-window dept.

kormoc writes "The developers of X.org have just release the long-desired version 6.8.0. This release brings real translucency and allows one to set values on different windows. Also, nifty drop shadows as well as XDamage, an extention that limits redrawing of windows to only the areas that were damaged. The Xcomposite extention is still not stable, but it works well for some people. Why not give it a shot?"

16 of 463 comments (clear)

  1. Why do people care so much about drop shadows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Really, why?

    What is it with drop shadows?

    Do they make you appear super l33t h4x0rZ111!11one w00t!!!?

    1. Re:Why do people care so much about drop shadows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      But my eyes both see different images of the monitor, so I still get depth perception.

    2. Re:Why do people care so much about drop shadows? by julesh · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes. You perceive how far away from you the monitor is.

    3. Re:Why do people care so much about drop shadows? by escher · · Score: 4, Funny

      You fools! Four is the number of the pixels and the number of the pixels shall be four! Not two! Not three, unless one then proceedeth to four! Five is right out!

  2. Gentoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gentoo users may have access to it first, but will they be the first to be able to run it? Teeheehee!

    (Take it as a joke, gentoo fans...)

  3. "Why not give it a shot?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I run XFree, you insensitive clod

  4. Debian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope this finds it way into Debian soon...

  5. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We do announce releases of windows... so...

    1. Re:Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Man, I love these MS jokes. They never get old. This is why when I'm in the basement and Mom yells down "What are you always laughing for?" (cause slashdot has tons of these jokes, no matter what the subject). "Are you drunk?" I have to say "No Mom, I just watched a clip of a guy getting hit in the groin with a dolphin." That way I still look cool by laughing at non-techie things. LOL!!!

  6. Re: In Soviet Russia... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny


    > .. the software shoots you!!

    > > Why not give it a shot?

    Aaaiiieeeee! Top-posting makes its debut on Slashdot! [head explodes, intarweb collapses]

    --
    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  7. Re:first "emerge it" post by SnowZero · · Score: 4, Funny

    "A man alone in the forest talking to himself and no women around to hear him. Is he still wrong?"

    No, he's just waiting for Gentoo to compile X11.

  8. What?! by doob · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the release notes:

    "OpenGL is now supported for printing"

    Anyone care to explain this bizarre concept? Can I now connect my graphics card directly to my printer? :)

    --
    In the spoon, there is no Soviet Russia!
    1. Re:What?! by CaptnMArk · · Score: 4, Funny

      It requires a very fast printer to run glxgears.

  9. Re:But have they fixed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes.

  10. Drop Shadows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new drop shadowed overlords. That way, we can tell who the overloards actually are.

  11. Re:Screenshots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe they got it from Apple, or at least all the ideas and the graphics.