Saturday Apr 15

Working XGL and Compiz

Seems that with one of the recent updates my video card has sudden 3D support. I can play tuxracer with no prob­lems so I decided to try XGL and Compiz. The nested howto got it working in a window under my desktop so I figured I might as well try it out. Got it working thanks to the howto, cube and all about 10 minutes later. Very, very cool indeed. Only annoy­ance is that this inte­grated card isn’t fully up to it. It slows down Banshee, Evo­lu­tion and Inkscape, which I’m not trading for some fancy effects. I’m def­i­nitely going to keep it installed to show off some­time but for my desktop it’s not really worth it. Can live without it.

As for screen­shots I opted out this time, as I guess you’ve all seen enough screen casts and shots.

…Very cool though… ^^

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