Freely rotate windows. New plugin I found

I found this great new plugin which allows you to freely rotate windows in any direction that you want. It is called ‘freewins’
Google it for more info. I will try to write some metadata, compatibility with 0.6.0 and some screenshots later.
Here is a youtube video:

And a screenshot

Some basic usage:
Use Ctrl-Click anywhere [...]

Compiz Fusion 0.6.0 is released!

Great news from the dev team as Compiz Fusion 0.6.0, based on Compiz-Core has been released after fixing many bugs and adding a ton of new features. Here is the release announcement – straight from the Compiz Fusion Mailing List:
This is the first stable release of Compiz Fusion[1], the result of more
than six months of [...]

Video Plugin Update

I’ve noticed in the comments that a lot of people are having trouble with a blue / white tinge on video when using the mPlayer patch.
If you are not using a patched up Xgl (Allowing RBG -> YV12 colorspace conversion), try enabling / disabling ‘Use YV12 Colorspace’ on the video plugin
Make sure the video plugin [...]

Alright – Workaround Found

Alright.
I think this wordpress database is dead. So In the meantime, I have just re-posted to my googlepages account.
You can find the post here:
http://smspillaz.googlepages.com/compizfusioncommunitynewsforoctober18%2C20 
Wish me luck in getting a new blog set up
PS. Please be nice to google

Unlocking the full video potential of your video card

Have you ever wondered what the ‘video’ plugin is for? A short answer is that it does video accelleration through Compiz. But what does this all mean? Well we have to start with a few little explanations.
Compiz, at it’s core is a really simple openGL loop which takes textures which it was provided by the [...]

Apology

In a previous post, I accidentally posted a joke that was unprofessional and immature. I was unaware at the time of the full meaning of the joke, but was soon told afterwards.
I apologize deeply to anybody whom this may have offended.
The post has been removed, and should be removed from planet Compiz Fusion shortly
Kind Wishes

Cheap hacks ftw!

While re-writing Compiz-Fusion-Preferences Capplet, I had to do this:
 # CHEAP HACK! Sue me…
# We have to correct shift detection as it keeps on crapping up
# read : Calling the ‘changed’ function for no apparant reason
self.ShiftFunctionIsReady = True
*sigh*
BTW, I finally managed to fix the locking up problem in Fusion-Installer by using threading! It was actually quite [...]

Compiz Fusion Community News Edition 15 for October 5th, 2007: 3D fixed

Summary: Welcome to another edition of Compiz Fusion Community News. Over the past two weeks we have seen numerous fixes, and we are nearing a stable release. There have also been a minority of improvements and some new and interesting applications are being developed. There are also talks of a new web-design which is almost [...]

YASCC (The person who decodes this gets a smiley face from me in the comments ^_^)

Dear all application developers,
Please add python bindings to all your applications.
Thankyou.
/letter
About the same time that marex started his awesome work on simple-ccsm, I tried my hand at making a simple-compiz configurator similar to gnome-xgl-settings (I would get a screenshot for you, but I can’t find one) that was shipped with openSUSE 10.1.
It allows the user [...]

Graphical Git Script

Well, as some of you may know, I have started work on a GUI Git script written in my oh-so-holy language python (ducks from flying tomatoes). Anyways, it was designed for three reasons

I had to kill some time
Some people (Like I used to be) do not like typing out big long things in terminals or [...]