Compiz 0.6.0 Sees The Daylight

Dark Star · 03-10-2007, 04:34 PM

A new Compiz release was created by Danny Baumann, Compiz's main developer. Its release was announced yesterday and the newversion is 0.6.0.

Since the 0.4.0 release some big changes have occurred. A better support for multiple X-screens was implemented and an extensible logging framework was born. Some major improvements to option initialization based on the new meta-data system (which uses XML as its basis) appeared. This fresh meta-data system will handle different meta-data types, like plugin description, default option values and more.

Now the plugins have their own plugins that make the adjusting and extending the behavior of existing ones possible. The more dynamic handling of the output devices now allows the output device's configuration to be changed between frames.

The Cube plugin for Compiz 0.6.0 has some new additions, like transparency and basic background support and the non-power-of-two skydome textures are now supported. Other plugins now have introspection, or offer the user multiple modes of resize drawing and the place plugin now supports multiple placement modes. Some new plugins were added since 0.4.0, like Glib, Ini, Fs (FUSE plugin) etc.

Gtk-window-decorator now allows the user to configure the button layout in metacity themes and lets him change the actions of middle and right mouse button. For kde-window-decorator was added UTF-8 support for window titles and a fixed display of maximized windows.

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Danny Baumann discovered that this release, 0.6.0, contains a problem which could allow stacking desktop windows over normal windows at the moment when they are mapped. This could result in normal windows and/or panels not being visible when compiz is launched with the Gnome or KDE session until the desktop window is restacked once. This could be done by clicking on it, if the

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"Raise on click"

option is enabled.

Baumann promises he will release a 0.6.2 version as soon as possible to fix the problem.

Download : http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/...z-0.6.0.tar.gz
Source : [compiz] [ANNOUNCE] compiz-0.6.0

Abhishek Dwivedi · 03-10-2007, 04:55 PM

cool man....btw what is this thing????l he he eh...sry...

ChaiTan3 · 03-10-2007, 05:34 PM

When will the Amaranth Repo's be updated? they are still stuck on 0.5.2

gary4gar · 03-10-2007, 06:24 PM

Damm.. it looks but my gfx card limitions grr

Dark Star · 03-10-2007, 07:08 PM

^^Whats GPU you are using! I guess it could not be downgraded than mine

Garbage · 03-10-2007, 08:01 PM

Is hardware support enhanced ??

I'm using Intel 101 Ggc Board which have ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Onboard graphics. I've shared Video memory of 128MB.
RAM is 1GB DDR

Will this version run on my system ???

QwertyManiac · 03-10-2007, 08:53 PM

@shrish_nagar - It definitely will

But why use Compiz while there's Compiz-Fusion? Why are they even pushing out releases ...

Or am I mistaken and both are the same thing?

Garbage · 03-10-2007, 09:38 PM

I've asked bcoz previous versions were NOT working !!

Let me give a try...

BTW, I'm using Ubuntu 7.04
Can anyone provide me installing steps or any link ?? please....

praka123 · 03-10-2007, 09:55 PM

I think compiz is stable and compiz-fusion is beta.wait for some repos to pop up.be updated via http://ubuntuforums.org

Dark Star · 03-10-2007, 10:06 PM

I guess they renamed Compiz - Fusion to COmpiz even their site is saying Compiz. only .. Well Fusion was symbolic used to diff. btw previous Compiz and new Beryl+ Compiz

So think Compiz is what is now left

QwertyManiac · 03-10-2007, 10:09 PM

But why the new logo on my Cube? The logo same as www.compiz-fusion.org has. Mine's 0.5.5 too, though.

praka123 · 03-10-2007, 10:10 PM

http://opencompositing.org
^too shows as compiz being the active project

ChaiTan3 · 03-10-2007, 10:14 PM

From compiz-fusion.org
It is important to note that Compiz and Compiz Fusion are not the same thing (see: Compiz Fusion Vs Compiz). There is close co-operation between the developers of Compiz and the developers of Compiz Fusion, though ; in fact, many Compiz Fusion developers are also Compiz developers

infra_red_dude · 03-10-2007, 11:32 PM

@shirish
download and install the new amd/ati driver for linux. xpress 200 is supported.

btw, amarnath's repos are are only backports of gusty. so when gusty gets 0.6 so will his repos.