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Everything about Compiz
Compositing window manager for the X Window System
Compiz is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. Effects, such as a minimization animation or a cube workspace, are implemented as loadable plugins. Because it conforms to the ICCCM conventions, Compiz can be used as a substitute for the default Mutter or Metacity, when using GNOME Panel, or KWin in KDE Plasma Workspaces. Internally Compiz uses the OpenGL library as the interface to the graphics hardware. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: CompizA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Compiz for Beginners GuideThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Go sideways: XglA closely related topic
- Go sideways: GNOME ShellA closely related topic
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📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Compiz for Beginners GuideMarland Dunn · 2010
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