Here is my second installment of my top Linux apps to day it is about Compiz-Fusion.
Compiz-Fusion is the current incarnation of Compiz, which was released as free software by Novell for the SUSE distribution of LINUX in January 2006, and Beryl which forked from Compiz in September 2006. The two projects, Compiz and Beryl, merged in March of 2007 to become Compiz-Fusion.
With the merger Beryl production has been halted in favor of work on Compiz-Fusion, while Compiz has been maintained as the backend basis for Compiz-Fusion. Beryl development has been infused in to developing the plugins and functions on the visible level. With the merger Beryl has brought the availability of Emerald to the Compiz world.
The main function of the Compiz-Fusion is a compositing window manager plugin layer for the Compiz core. It has the fancy capability's known to Beryl with the stability that was considered to be Compizes major draw over Beryl.
Some of the many plugins include:
Along with Compiz-Fusion there is Emerald, a window decorator. Emerald allows for the Extreme customizing of the title bar.
Compiz-Fusion and its predecessors have contributed very greatly to the furthering of the Linux desktop movement into the main stream society, prompting other desktop operating system to develop similar features.
I hope you have enjoyed learning about Compiz as much as I have, and I hope you stay tuned for the rest of the article about the other applications, and to you my friends I bid you adieu.
Compiz-Fusion is the current incarnation of Compiz, which was released as free software by Novell for the SUSE distribution of LINUX in January 2006, and Beryl which forked from Compiz in September 2006. The two projects, Compiz and Beryl, merged in March of 2007 to become Compiz-Fusion.
With the merger Beryl production has been halted in favor of work on Compiz-Fusion, while Compiz has been maintained as the backend basis for Compiz-Fusion. Beryl development has been infused in to developing the plugins and functions on the visible level. With the merger Beryl has brought the availability of Emerald to the Compiz world.
The main function of the Compiz-Fusion is a compositing window manager plugin layer for the Compiz core. It has the fancy capability's known to Beryl with the stability that was considered to be Compizes major draw over Beryl.
Some of the many plugins include:
- Animation
- Color filter
- Expo
- Enhanced Zoom Desktop
- JPEG
- Negative
- Opacify
- Put
- Resize info
- Ring Switcher
- Shift Switcher
- Scale Addons
- Snapping Windows
- Text
- Window Previews
- Viewport Switcher
- Desktop Wall
- Window Rules
- Workarounds
- ADD Helper
- Benchmark
- Crash handler
- Cube Caps
- Cube Reflection
- Extra WM Actions
- Fade to Desktop
- Firepaint
- Cube Gears
- Group and Tab Windows
- Motion blur
- Reflection
- Scale Window Title Filter
- Show desktop
- Splash
- Trailfocus
- Widget Layer
Along with Compiz-Fusion there is Emerald, a window decorator. Emerald allows for the Extreme customizing of the title bar.
Compiz-Fusion and its predecessors have contributed very greatly to the furthering of the Linux desktop movement into the main stream society, prompting other desktop operating system to develop similar features.
I hope you have enjoyed learning about Compiz as much as I have, and I hope you stay tuned for the rest of the article about the other applications, and to you my friends I bid you adieu.
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