[Sussex] Wobbly Windows on Debian

[Stephen Williams]

Gosh, praise indeed! Now, have you been able to set 6 faces to your
desktop "cube"?

ATi support for Linux is lagging behind nVidia, so it might be a good
excuse to switch to nVidia - unless it's a laptop of course.

Did you have to install XGL or AIGLX to get it to work, or does the
propietary ATi driver provide the necessary OpenGL functionality?

What do you use for video playback? I use mplayer and found I had to
recompile it after installing Beryl.

Anyway, have fun.

Steve W.


On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 11:38 +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> 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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