Compiz Fusion Community News edition… Something! For July 30, 2007 : Widgets and Cubecaps.

Background : Its another edition of Compiz Fusion Community News, where I, SmSpillaz tell you how this absolutely amazing project is going. Lets get started!
News in Bugs :
- Fixed weirdness in grouped maximization
- Grouped resize now ’stretches’ the other windows while you resize them, instead of waiting for you to ungrab the first window then [...]

HOWTO : Linux looking like Vista

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO8MTAfFhGg
EDIT : I cant seem to get the embed working. Here is the link
Shownotes coming soon!

Vista VS Mac. My thoughts

Hmm, Just a thought.
I was using Vista to copy some files to  my portable HDD so I could get them on my Mac. It took about 10 min to copy the files which were of a hefty size (About 500 mb). They were video files too. Now, to copy them to my mac, it took [...]

MultiScreen Madness!

 Ever wondered what it’s like to run Compiz Fusion on Multiple Screens?

Oh, and the clone plugin grabs one screen and clones it to the other. So both screens show the same image

My Desktop is ‘Aqua’ it matches the curtains :)

Here is my attempt at an aqua desktop

(Is patitent for fisheye effect in awn)
(Wants macmenu)
Have you look alike-desktops? Post them in the comments!

Widget Plugin

A lot of people have been asking in the comment if you can get a widget plugin. The answer is…….. *drum roll* YES! YOU CAN! (Que Game show music). Its not actually in the repositories, but it is in another repository, like this :
git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~mike/widget
See, its not our plugin, (Quinn [...]

I got inspired

Well, because of the new Shift plugin which seems to emulate almost oh-so-perfectly Flip3D in Windows Vista, I got inspired to actually *try* to make an almost perfect Vista Clone out of my desktop. Here is what I got.

Some of you might be wondering why my panel seems to be just hovering off the top. [...]

Compiz Fusion Community News Edition 9, for July 23, 2007 : Breaking News : Forums posts go down by half due to a lack of posts asking for aquariums.

Backround : Its time for another edition of Compiz Fusion Community news after two weeks while I was away. This week, me , SmSpillaz and gavintlgold will be showing off more totally awesome stuff, the plugins and such.

News in Bugs :
- Sped up group a little
- If a grouped window is focused but was not [...]

Compiz Fusion Community News Edition 8, for July 01, 2007 : We’re hoving above Windows.

Background : Its time for another edition of Compiz Community News and we’ve got me… SmSpillaz here to show you what’s going on in the project. In a nutshell, we’ve got some new plugins showing off some stuff you have never seen before. Also, our new settings manager, CCSM has gotten some major updates.
News in [...]