You just hit the spot at the right pre-school level Ben, This I understand perfectly - it is a yoke intended to make everything looking cool - an it is firmly stuck between the desktop environment and the screen.
Thanks, I get it now, it should not add to my Linux experience in any positive/negative ways. Tomas On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 10:03 -0700, Ben Koenig wrote: > Compiz makes your desktop look cool. > > Compiz can break certain applications. > > As an analogy, if we compare VLC to a website... then Compiz is a > module > you enable in the web server to add graphical effects to VLC. > > Now imagine if this web server module that you enable in http.conf > was > integrated into the webserver, and impossible to disable. > That is what ubuntu did with compiz. They included the graphical > effects > system at a level that can't be turned off. This results in > applications > such as VLC encountering problems that go back 10 years, because > control > over how the video is rendered to the screen has been taken away > from > the video player. > > I hope that clarifies it. This is a topic worth keeping tabs on > because > it directly affects how server-side data is presented to the user on > the > client side. > > > On 05/09/2018 02:18 AM, Tomas K wrote: > > 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. 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