Desktop Effects on openSUSE 11.0
by cyberorg,
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
Last week openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3 was released, very early development release of what is to come in form of openSUSE 11.0 just a couple of months later.
On 11.0 release there is a plenty of choice for desktop effects, there is Compiz with all Compiz Fusion enhancements, there is KWin4 a composited window manager for KDE. To enable users to easily get their window manager of choice activated, openSUSE’s Stefan Dirsch and xorg team have worked to enable AIGLX by default on supported hardwares, and upon the installation of 1-click for binary blob drivers.
To enable Compiz, Rodrigo is working on “Desktop Effects” tab in gnome’s control-center “Appearance” caplet that would make it really easy to turn on effects. He is also working on getting something that is usable by all distributions in upstream gnome.
: PeterPac, March 30, 2008 @ 4:17 am
Cheers to all involved as we are slowly but surely getting desktop effects down pat. Just a few months ago it took a genius to figure out how to set up 3D or multiple desktops. This is with both GNOME and KDE so again I say Cheers to All.