Thanks all for trying, I really appreciate it. I am now confused, on the top of just not knowing. I guess, I was naive to seek simple functional description after seeing all those mountains of buzzwords on compiz.org.
It gets even worse with more unknown stuff such as Aero and Mac OS - GPU and openGL. Those are not good reference points to me. I guess, it has something to do with 3D, triangles, polygons, vertexes, fills, etc. as in when you want to fill a window frame in games before it gets passed to compositor for screen frame assembly? Or am I completely off track? I thought X does that window decorations and screen frame assembly work. Anyway, thanks again for trying - I thought that it would be easy to just ask. It always is. :-) It seems that I would have to spent some non trivial time learning about stuff I am not currently that much interested in. I am server, web service, engineering and data junkie kind of a guy - html5, svg, gnuplot, R, Qt, .... can display any data I can think of at the moment. This is completely unfamiliar area to me. Cheers, Tomas On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 21:19 -0700, Ben Koenig wrote: > Not exactly > > Compiz is a window manager that enables desktop effects similar to > those > found in Mac OS X and Windows Aero. It accomplishes this by drawing > application windows to the screen using OpenGL and you graphics card. > It > is a component of your Desktop Environment. > > Maximize, minimize, and window manipulation that we expect on a > desktop > computer is handed by a "Window Manager". Compiz provides these > features > using opengl on your GPU, so it can go nuts and arrange your desktop > in > 3 dimensions. Windows Aero.... MacOS Expo/Mission Control... or in > our > case the Compiz Desktop Cube. > > > Most DE's such as KDE and whatnot have the ability to run a > different > WM, therefore drastically changing the way windows are managed. > > > On 05/08/2018 09:00 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > Thanks. > > So is it a desktop environment like Gnome/kde/lxde/... ? > > > > On Tue, May 8, 2018, 8:23 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 09 May 2018 02:55:17 +0000 > > > Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> dijo: > > > > > > > What is Compiz? > > > > What is it good for? > > > > Can some explain it in a single digestible sentence? > > > > > > Compiz allows the user to add a bit of art to their desktop by > > > altering > > > the appearance of windows and objects. As a common example that I > > > use > > > myself, you can add a shadow around windows. I keep my shadow > > > thin and > > > not very dark so it is just a hint. If you're not artistically > > > inclined, then compiz is not for you. > > > > > > Sorry, that was more than one sentence. Hopefully they were > > > digestible. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
