[Sussex] Wobbly Windows on Debian

[Steve Dobson]

Hi Gang

After being really impressed by Steve W's wobbly window demo (of Beryl)
I've been looking for the packaging to happen in Debian.  It still hasn't
happened.

However, Beryl is a fork of compiz, and compiz is packaged for debian.
So I installed it and gave it a go.  It works!  I have wobbly windows!
I have true transparent windows! I have video playing on the edges of my
cube!

I have only found two disadvantages so far:

1) Most video files I've tried don't do transparency, and playing more
than one video at a time doesn't always work.  This is not a replay 
problem as I only want to do this for demo purposes.  This may also be
a function of my video card, the Gentoo page on supported hardware 
notes that there are problems with my card.

2). I had to install the propriety video driver (for Xorg) from ATI.
This is a problem with my conscience as I would much rather run a 
purely free software system.

Anyway, I does work.  So if you're a debian user and want to have a
play with wobbly window then check out http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz.

Steve
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