Blue Knight Sojourn of the Mind

Compiz-Fusion is a composite windows manager that aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness. The first Compiz

Now that we got the definition out of the way, in my previous post about installing compiz-fusion on Intel cards I sort of gave a tutorial on how to install it on a Gentoo system with Intel Cards. Not too long ago compiz-fusion project released a new version. Unfortunately through the normal portage tree this version is not available. If you install the layman overlays and obtain the “desktop-effects” overlay you can actually install version 0.7.6 which is a ways away from the 0.6.0 version available through standard portage.

What does this version give you?

• 3D Windows - the ability to have pop up windows from the cube just like it was in Berryl. I missed this very much and am glad to have it back.
• Cube Reflection and deformation - is a very nice effect giving you the ability to have ovals, and spheres during rotation as well as some very nice reflection effects. I tried this but decided to stick to the default cube settings.
• User Space - No idea really and I really do not want to fool around with it.
• Wallpapers and others.

The update is pretty simple, for me it was simply emerging the new version and rebooting the system that made it work.

Soon there should be another update as the current version on the Compiz-Fusion web site is 0.7.8