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Preview of X Windows Eye Candy

Posted by Zonk on from the pet-the-penguin dept.

glenkim writes "Remember Seth Nickell's blog entry about next generation X Window rendering? Well, in case you were wondering what it would look like, he's updated his blog with videos of luminocity, the experimental GNOME window manager, and screenshots of programatically themed widgets." From the post: "The wobbly window effect is mildly addictive. Kristian hasn't gotten much work done since he wrote it. He (and now I) spends all day moving windows around and watching them settle."

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  1. Re:CoralCDN [mirror] by natrius · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mirror of the Theora videos

  2. xgl by elmartinos · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yesterday I have tried Xgl, Which also uses OpenGL to draw X. I think Luminocity and xgl are tightly related, but I am not really shure.

    Anyway, what I got was a stable desktop with nice shadow and transparency features. It looks totally cool to have a transparent mplayer behind a transparent xterm that drops a soft shadow on it :-)

    Trying it out is fairly easy, just follow this description.

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  3. Re:Please get it right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    It draws windows, but it's called X-Window.

    No it's not. From X manpage:

    The X Consortium requests that the following names be used when refer-
    ring to this software:

    X
    X Window System
    X Version 11
    X Window System, Version 11
    X11