[olug] XGL?

[Nick Veys]

I've played a bit with it, its nice, and it definitely gets window
rendering up to speed with Windows and Mac, but the window manager is
pretty crippled, once it is as fully featured as Metacity (take that
with a grain of salt) or KWin it'll be great.

It doesn't render the window theme in Gnome, just its default.

There are lots of little nuisances, its just simply incomplete software.

But the wobbly windows always get the wow factor.

On 4/11/06, Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity has any one played around with this new desktop
> "scheme"? If so, I'd love to hear about your experiences with this.
>
> Might be interesting to have XGL available on a machine at the
> installfest. I've got the kororaa XGL live cd but my machine doesn't
> have the oomph to run it. I can burn a few copies for those who'd like
> to try it and has the machine to do it as I've downloaded the iso.
>
> Here are the notes from Kororaa:
>
> NOTES
> * Username is "kororaa", password is "xgl". To become root run "sudo su
> -"
> * Version 0.2 IS an installable version of Kororaa, as well as a Live
> CD.
> * Supported drivers are "nvidia" (nVidia Geforce3 and higher);
> "fglrx" (ATI r350, r300, r250 and r200; Intel Video via DRI (tested on
> my i865 chipset, not sure about others); and ATI Radeon via DRI (works
> well on my 64Mb Radeon 7000).
> * A list of cards that are supposed to work with Xgl can be found here
> (please note this may be different to what Kororaa Xgl Live CD
> supports).
> For a list of which cards are supported by their drivers, please see
> nVidia's here and ATI's here.
>
> Don Kauffman
>
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