[L3mMinG (old)]

Did you even see my screenshot ?

[HoboHumpinSlut (old)]

shadows and translucency...yummy

[gk245 (old)]

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Did you even see my screenshot ?

yep. Its sort of annoying to me, this transparancy behaviour, so i could care lesss. Looks cool, but doesn't make one more productive...i suppose you could just show off..

Or maybe i am just too uncool for X.org...

[L3mMinG (old)]

To be honest the transparency would only make for cool side-effects like the transparent title bar of inactive windows mac style, so I disabled it right after the screenshot.

I kinda like the shadows though

This is just an illustration of what could be achieved using the new extension in x.org. Considering openGL transformations on a window's pixmap are possible, hardware accelerated eye candy is possible and some stuff is actually quite helpfull. Take the Mac os 10.3's expose feature for instance, that just rocks
http://www.apple.com...eatures/expose/

edit: that video is kinda missing the point, but it's also possible to zoom out all the on screen windows so none overlap and then click the one you want activated so they all zoom in with the selected one in front.

[gk245 (old)]

yes, exactly. This release is just showing us what can be done. So, i guess we will have to wait a bit to have developers do some nifty things with it. Then it will really take off.

Funny how apple is almost first with these things and sad that they don't control even fraction of the market. Thats what happens when you are proprietory closed hardware...and have a operating system that doesn't run on x86.

[L3mMinG (old)]

Well the underlying freeBSD architecture of mac os x runs fine on x86 so I'm pretty sure the interface would as well. Apple just wouldn't sell much of their hardware anymore if they released a recompiled x86 version

[Insane_Penquin (old)]

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Just installed new X.org (the pre 6.8.0) and the nice features seem to work just fine

http://wilma.vub.ac....tommel/pwnt.jpg

how do you install this once you download those seven files. im to the point of having the xc folder with stuff in it but the readme doesnt say much and im not sure what to do.

[gk245 (old)]

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if anyone needs help installing this, check this thread out:


http://episteme.arst...&m=897003555631

[Insane_Penquin (old)]

thanks man, that hit the spot

[gk245 (old)]

welcome. Just make sure to read through the thread, since there are many links and install info scattered throughout.