Creating a Compiz plugin

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Thu Feb 16 06:28:10 PST 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 23:29 +0000, Francis Woodhouse wrote:
> I spent some time playing with Compiz, and specifically the plugins
> system, and have managed to create my own plugin. I thought that
> others would be interested in this, since Compiz is a next-generation
> flag bearer and all that, and there haven't been any custom plugins
> yet. 
> 
> The plugin is fairly simple, a window opacity changer, but I also
> wrote a walkthrough of the code so hopefully others can get stuck in
> creating some new, spangly plugins to make Compiz even better.
> 
> The plugin coding information and opacity plugin are linked here:
> http://www.downwithnumbers.com/news.php?id=41

Great stuff!

Instead of patching Makefiles in compiz you can use something like the
attached Makefile to build the plugin outside the compiz tree.

> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> - Francis Woodhouse
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-David
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