Tag Archives: Compiz

Compile Compiz 0.9.0 in Ubuntu

Sam pointed me to thread that had some build directions that he had put there. I’ve had trouble in the past getting Compiz 0.9 to run, usually with gtk-window-decorator not working. Update: This is really easy now because of Soreau’s script. Download Desktop.tar.gz which has the script with execute permissions and the source directory Delete

Sam Ported Simple Animations to Compiz 0.9!

Sam ported the Simple Animations plug-in to the new version of Compiz (in C++), so I’m checking it out and going to see if anything is in my version that is worth porting. I only slightly modified it to slide entirely off the screen for a minimize animation and took away some blending operation hooks

Linux ePoc headset update

I had a short email discussion with the folks from ePoc, making the headset I blogged about a bit ago. Their SDK is available for beta on Linux, so finally I can start the real work – and put their SDK to a test. This is pretty good timing too because 0.9 is released and

Compiz Mind Control

I’ve been  looking at the Developer Nanoheadset ($500) by Emotiv and will likely be purchasing one to fiddle with. My first idea was to add a plugin to 0.9.0 so that we can have a Brain Input, much like the keyboard and mouse input dialogs now. You could map some kind of brain activity, such

Compiz Documentation Update

As the release for Compiz 0.9.0 gets closer, now is a good time to let everyone know what I’ve been most involved with: Documenting the API. Until recently, there was no API documentation for Compiz. You really have to admire the amount of time the core developers and others have spent working with a system

Easy Compiz Tricks

A while ago I tweaked Sam’s simple animations plug-in for Compiz, mainly so windows I minimized would slide away to match some of my other settings. This was to strike a balance between usability and performance, since none of these effects use alpha blending. During this time I made some jokes about a Spinner Rims

Compiz, Patents, and Ubuntu

No, this isn’t about the stupid max_waves conflict with Apple’s patent that everyone has been ranting (and working around) for the last few years. From what I hear the future 0.9.0 release won’t be hampered by it, but how does Compiz fair with patents? Who made Compiz, and who’s working on it today? From my

Bugs with GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS

There are two bugs that I encounter a lot in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) that irritate me a lot. Both bugs involve mouse clicks not being registered. I’ve got some workarounds and fixes, but first some background on these bugs. Flash Bug (#410407) This bug has been misidentified as a bug in Compiz, when in fact

Compiz Documentation Tag Style Vote

I’m getting mixed opinions about what kind of doc tags to use in the Compiz project. Overall there are two choices that everyone seems to be okay with. In no particular order the two most popular methods are: /// /// This does that /// Or /**  *  This does that  */ The latter is nice

Compiz 0.9 C++ compared to 0.8.4 C

Here is an early look at some of the changes I’ve been investigating as documentation continues on the new Compiz 0.9 branch. The community and development team are pretty awesome folks, and I would like to take a moment to thank everyone in the IRC, Forums, and Planet. This graph is simply information I collected