<div>On 2/6/07, Jigish Gohil <<a href="mailto:jigish.gohil@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jigish.gohil@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 2/6/07, Dan Nicholson <<a href="mailto:dbn.lists@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dbn.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On 2/6/07, Keith Packard <<a href="mailto:keithp@keithp.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> keithp@keithp.com</a>> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:12 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > > > >From the look of it Mandriva's X server has that too. > > > > Yeah, I haven't heard anything about this and had to go looking on the > > net. Anyone know what this looks like? > > Here's a little more info and some videos: > > <a href="http://www.mandriva.com/projects/metisse" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.mandriva.com/projects/metisse </a> > <a href="http://www.mandriva.com/projects/metisse/download" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.mandriva.com/projects/metisse/download</a> > Here's more: <a href="http://dev.beryl-project.org/%7Ecyberorg/uncategorized/13/metisse-on-opensuse/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://dev.beryl-project.org/~cyberorg/uncategorized/13/metisse-on-opensuse/ </a> I tried to build packages, but somehow they are segfaulting here, local build works though, may be someone could give them a try, you need nucleo, metisse, and metisse-fvwm to run: <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/cyberorg/openSUSE_10.2/i586/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/cyberorg/openSUSE_10.2/i586/</a> Cheers -J _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list <a href="mailto:compiz@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> compiz@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz </a> </blockquote></div> I got this working on my desktop last night.  It is pretty neat, and it seems like it basically juts has some good input redirection.  So you can rotate windows around XYZ axes in any way you want, then if you clone a window, u can transform the cloned window in the same manner (each object can have different transformations), and then you can use either window actively, and the other updates its screen at the same time.  Also, when you zoom out to get a birdseye view of all desktops, you can still interact with windows, which is more input redirection.       The really cool thing it has is facades.  This lets you super+drag a square anywhere on a window and then drag that square area from the window into its own window, similar to clone, but ur only cloning that small slected area of the iwndow.  This is useful for cloning certain buttons in a window only, then shrinking the window down so it wont get in your way and you still hvae the buttons there.      If anyone wants to know more about it I can try some things out if you have questions.  Hope this provided some useful information. -- William Wolf