Compiz Will Be Shipped with Ubuntu Linux 7.10

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Yesterday, the Ubuntu Technical Board voted for shipping Ubuntu 7.10 ("Gutsy") with Compiz enabled by default. There were some difficulties in taking this decision, since the Technical Board had to determine if it's reliable and fully functional.

The compositing window manager Compiz includes a number of sophisticated visual effects as transparency, desktop zooming, shadows etc. The inclusion of a compositing window manager was planned at first for Ubuntu 7.04, but it was delayed because the software wasn't developed enough.

Although Compiz will be enabled by default, there are still some technical problems that need fixing, such as drivers that don't meet the requirements of all the visual effects. These are the most serious problems that appear when running Compiz, but there are some related to the underlying components of Xorg. One of the best known issues is that which affects the Intel drivers, problem that can only be solved by using the EXA accelerated rendering framework which isn't completed yet. It seems that Intel are working at a slow pace, because they consider that composite window managers won't be ready for rolling out until the EXA framework is stable enough.

The EXA problem could be fixed, but most of the Xorg developers are focusing on more critical issues, considering that this is a low priority for the X community. Technical Board member Matthew Garrett said: "

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The Ubuntu Technical Board also thought about the users' feedback, and how they would respond to their decisions. When the voting was made, all the participants voted in favor of the inclusion, the only one against it being Garrett, who wanted to fix the critical problems before including Compiz in the Ubuntu 7.10 edition.

Source : Ubuntu Technical Board votes on Compiz for Ubuntu 7.10

[Kiran.dks]

I prefer Beryl over Compiz.

[praka123]

beryl merged to form compiz-fusion whose screenshots are above.
http://opencompositing.org

[mehulved]

Beryl is history. It's only compiz-fusion that's left now.

[Kiran.dks]

Originally Posted by praka123

beryl merged to form compiz-fusion whose screenshots are above.
http://opencompositing.org

That's a good news man. I didn't know that. Thanks

For new readers: http://lwn.net/Articles/229690/

[gxsaurav]

I don't want tose effects, I don't want fire on my UI or rindrops. Those effect sux...i just want a GPU accelerated UI with no tearing & smearing. No blank edges when I resize a window & the GPU should redraw the windows on screen like it does in Vista with those apps made with WPF.

Can compiz fusion does that? If yes then its better then Vista Aero due to dame feature set but low system requirment.

[Dark Star]

Lol Saurav .. CF way better than Aero btw .. CF works perfectly on 256 Mb Ram onboard GPU while .. thinking Aero I even cannot run Vista

[gxsaurav]

Originally Posted by Shashwat Pant

Lol Saurav .. CF way better than Aero btw .. CF works perfectly on 256 Mb Ram onboard GPU while .. thinking Aero I even cannot run Vista

I know the hardware requirement of Compiz is lower then that of Aero but I want to know whether it is just effect which never help in UI or is it something helpful too such as the the Window manager drawing the Windows as parallel texture to the monitor screen completely in GPU due to which there is no tearing or smearing when a window is moved or re-drawn

[QwertyManiac]

Shashwat Pant - You know better than this.

I like this new icon better:


And btw, the C-F website has finally got some content on it!
http://www.compiz-fusion.org/

[Gigacore]

Thanks for the post... i prefer compiz more than beryl

[contactpraven2001]

still no fix beryl in my ubuntu but it's good thet they are thinking compiz with ubuntu with ubuntu 7.10.......