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Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.4 released
by cyberorg, Friday, April 4th, 2008 @ 12:17 pm

Dennis “onestone” Kasprzyk announced the release of Compiz 0.7.4 followed by an announcement of Compiz Fusion 0.7.4 release from Guillaume “iXce” Seguin.

Here is the major changes in Compiz from the last release:

Configurable handling of overlapping output devices.
Enhanced focus stealing prevention with configurable amount of focus stealing prevention.
Added configurable, optional delay for edge actions to prevent accidental invocation.
Generalized vertex system to improve plugin compatibility.
Optimized Gaussian blur shader to support more hardware.

Highlight of Compiz Fusion release are:

Expo has a new transformation mode: “Curve”
New plugin: bicubic, which adds shader based bicubic filtering to improve the quality of scaled textures
CCSM got Improved look of edge and button selector widgets and Advanced Search rewrite
simple-ccsm got little enhancements: Added expo plugin to effects page, widget to configure global edge settings, and ed ‘mag’ plugin as ‘area zoom’ to zoom page

As always packages for openSUSE are available via 1-click install from the openSUSE Build Service X11:XGL replository, for more information of how to install or set everything up, see http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz_Fusion

: Ivan, April 9, 2008 @ 10:49 am

Oneclick installation of compiz 0.7.4, fail on my system OpenSuse 10.3 with the following error:

Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic

Please someone can help me ?
: cyberorg, April 9, 2008 @ 10:57 am

You are trying to install openSUSE_Factory packages on 10.3, use openSUSE_10.3 repository 1-click.
: rainerklier, April 10, 2008 @ 11:02 am

when will compiz-fusion-plugins-git-080409 be available?
your the repo under http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/opensuse/repositories/home:/cyberorg/openSUSE_10.3/x86_64/
offers new packages with release-date 080409.
but some are missing:
compiz-fusion-plugins-git
compiz-manager-0.0.1_git
emerald-compiz-git
fusion-icon-0.0.1