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Impress Your Friends With A 3D Desktop Pager

Posted by timothy on from the eyecandy dept.

xiando writes "3D-Desktop is a window pager for Linux. It works with any window manager and the screenshots look very impressive. The idea is to allow you to look at all your virtual desktops in different 3D views."

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  1. well... by nuggetman · · Score: 1, Funny

    i liked it better the first time, when it was called "apple fast user switching"!

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    ...and that's all there is to it.
  2. Re:Requirements + more by molnarcs · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is quite an old program (I used it in Mandrake 9.0!). Worked fine for some time, than it became buggy - either the prog or Nvidia drivers. Oh yes, I had a TNT2 card, and it worked fine with it. Tried it once on FreeBSD since then, but had many crashed (that was before the recent nvidia driver update, and I have an FX5200 now).

    This is an funny but accurate description of the port:

    bash-3.00$ portell 3ddesktop
    /usr/ports/x11/3ddesktop/pkg-descr reads:

    3D-Desktop is an OpenGL program that lets you switch virtual desktops in
    a seamless 3-Dimensional environment. Impress your friends, and slow down
    your desktop... all at the same time!

    WWW: http://desk3d.sourceforge.net
    -Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
  3. It's a UNIX system! by T-Ranger · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know this!

    1. Re:It's a UNIX system! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      g#$*#$d slashdot geeks. Get a room.

  4. Re:*yawn* by wertarbyte · · Score: 2, Funny

    Instead of "improving my productivity" I wish these developers would focus their skills on what linux desperately needs -- more games!

    If you have a wheel mouse, you can play the desktop lottery with this :-) Just spiiiiiin the wheeeeeel....

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