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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."

3 of 462 comments (clear)

  1. It's nice and all but... by northcat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...the fonts suck. I still use fonts from windows on Linux. (I wish I was capable of creating a nice font.)

  2. transparent window by ch-chuck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    pseudo transparent anyway - just use "aterm -tr"
    then you have to play around with font colors that you can actually see against your root image tho.

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  3. Re:X *WINDOW* system by petrus4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Although some may question the advisability of advocating a controlled substance, I believe that a short course of marijuana is something you may find extremely therapeutic. I myself used to be as pedantic as this, but after smoking weed intermittently for around 18 months, (late 2001-2003) was no longer so, and have not been to this day.

    Although it may be argued that my becoming less pedantic was actually due to the marijuana causing neurological damage, if it was damage it was in such a way that I was still profoundly grateful for. It made me less likely to care about being correct in instances where being correct truly did not matter, and where the only purpose being correct served was to alienate and annoy my fellow man.