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Compiz Project Releases C++ Based v0.9.0
werfu writes "Compiz 0.9.0, the first release of Compiz rewritten in C++, has been announced on the Compiz mailing list. See the announcement for more info." Compiz has for years been one of my favorite ways to make Windows users envious, despite my (Linux) systems' otherwise low-end graphics capabilities. Besides the switch to C++ from C, this release "brings a whole new developer API, splits rendering into plugins,
switches the buildsystem from automake to cmake and brings minor functionality improvements."
This is a first release after the reunification of the Compiz, Compiz++, NOMAD and Compiz Fusion branches. It's unstable, but at least it's good to see all the effort coming under the same roof again.
Nothing useful. It's eye candy, like a turbo-charged Aero Glass with 3D effects.
I use the cube desktop switcher and that's it. For some reason I find the idea of a cube easier to map out my mind when I have several windows open than a chain of 4 desktops.
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In fact, on old systems with a graphics card it is significantly faster than the traditional way of redrawing windows.
Why? Because:
1. the gfx card can do part of the work
2. all windows are already drawn and kept in the graphic card's memory
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Compiz doesn't actually use that much system resources, nor strain your hardware either.
I have a 3.2GHz tri-core Phenom II system with a GTS 240 (~400MHz, 96 stream processors) and Compiz will easily consume 5% or more if you have a window with continual graphics updates, like a game or a video player. That's a lot of CPU! You can manually disable transforms on that window but that requires a visit to the settings manager that would leave the average user dumbfounded.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"