Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

[Tim Igoe]

I guess it was referring to the thread on the Gentoo forums

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-386012-highlight-xgl.html



Daevid Vincent wrote:
> I'm sorry, could you give me/us the URL for the forum?
>
> Is that a gentoo forum or the freedesktop one?
> I went to www.freedesktop.org but didn't see a 'forum' link, only mailing
> lists.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hemmann, Volker Armin
>> [mailto:volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de]
>> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 1:59 AM
>> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop
>>
>> On Saturday 11 February 2006 03:06, Daevid Vincent wrote:
>>
>>> Whoa. Check out this demo of a new OpenGL X desktop. IMHO
>>>
>> it blows away the
>>
>>> Mac OS/X
>>>
>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi
>>>
>>> Anyone have any other info on when this will be available?
>>>
>> How does it
>>
>>> work?
>>>
>> look into the forum, unsupported software, big thread.
>>
>>
>>> It looks like they're just using Gnome. Will it work with KDE too?
>>>
>> yes it does. It works with every wm (except compiz, which is
>> a gconf addon -
>> gconf the windows registry for linux.. but luckily nobody
>> needs compiz).
>>
>> If you are only interested in shadows and transparency, you
>> don't need to
>> install Xgl.
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>>
>>
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