Question for use in senior design project

Marek Wawrzyczny marekw1977 at yahoo.com.au
Wed Sep 15 16:39:56 PDT 2004


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 05:52, Etan Reisner wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Chris Kurecka wrote:
> > I am a senior computer science engineering student at the University of
> > Michigan.  I have been following the xorg mailing list for a couple
> > months now, and have upgraded to the new release.  For our open-ended
> > senior design project, my group (3 people; we may add a 4th) wants to use
> > the new X server extensions to try to implement something similar to Mac
> > OS X's Expose feature.  Is this feasible with the R6.8.x series?  Based
> > on what I've seen with xcompmgr, I would think so.  Does anyone have any
> > comments and/or suggestions on how to get started with such a project?  I
> > haven't had a lot of luck with the speed of the Composite extension on my
> > Radeon 9000 Pro.  We're open to using pretty much any card for this
> > project - is there one that will run the new feature set best, for the
> > purposes of a good demo?  Thanks a lot for any help you can provide.
>
> Not to rain on your parade but did you mean something like this
> http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php or http://kompose.berlios.de/ ?

Also the author of Kompose has stated that he is now working on implementing 
the new 6.8 features into his program.

Marek



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