Projects

Compiz

Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE. (Short version: Wobbly windows and stuff)

Compiz Fusion

Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the well-known Beryl composite window manager and Compiz Extras, a community set of improvements to the Compiz composite window manager. Compiz Fusion aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to ... [More] render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness. [Less]

Enlightenment (e17)

Enlightenment has grown to be much more than a window manager. It has many systems that have grown on their own to support development of the next version (0.17) and all the effort is going into solidifying these systems to be more than solid to build on. This has lead to a lot of code being ... [More] produced that is useful far and beyond a window manager. The idea is to share as much code as possible with other programs, and so a small army of shared libraries has evolved for Enlightenment. This page attempts to cover some of these (especially the more interesting ones) to give a good insight into why they exist, what they do, how to use them, and where they are going. [Less]

Avant Window Navigator

Avant Window Navigator is a dock for the Free Desktop which shows your launchers and open applications. It also contains support for extensions, via plugins for third-party applications, which communicate with the dock with DBus, and via applets, which allows for workspace switchers, system trays ... [More] , clocks, etc., to be embedded in the dock. These applets can be written in C, Vala, or Python. Awn currently requires compositing support in order to run. Window managers which support compositing include (but are not limited to) Metacity (part of GNOME), Xfwm4 (part of Xfce), KWin (part of KDE4.x), and Compiz. There are also standalone compositing managers, for window managers without support built-in: Cairo Compositing Manager and xcompmgr. [Less]

Le Biniou

camleon

OCaml+OpenGL-based library for programming real-time music visualizations (i.e. 'eye-candy').

Cairo Composite Manager

Cairo Composite Manager is a versatile and extensible composite manager which use cairo for rendering. Rendering can be done in 2D or 3D, using Xrender and Glitz backends. Plugins can be used to add some cool effects to your desktop.

advancedgnomemenu

Advanced Gnome MenuThis is an eye-candy menu applet for GNOME. (soon even compatibility with KDE and XFCE) Good looks and usability are the key aims of this project. Just see it at work and you'll love it ;) Project memberschief developer: Marco Mosconi, brus46@gmail.com developer: Fanen ... [More] Ahua image designer: Sentinella86 Source install:Download the source Untar it on your pc give the command ./install.sh Deb install:Download the deb package Double click on the .deb file Svn installInstall subversion (on debian-ubuntu: sudo apt-get install subversion) Create a directory where put the program. Open a terminal and move to that directory Run this command: svn checkout http://advancedgnomemenu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ advancedgnomemenu-read-only Enter into the new folder and execute ./install.sh This script will install the latest svn version of agm (please, note that if you use the agm-panel you must remove it and re-add if you want to see changes, if you reboot you obtain the same..). Add to panelOnce you've installed the program right-click on a gnome panel and select "Add to the panel". Then select from the gnome applets list "AGM" Add to a dockActually there's no plugin for any dock. You can use an "experimental-way" Add a launcher on your bar and set as command "advancedgnomemenu --no-tray-icon" This should work but sometimes may crashes... [Less]

LinuxLive USB Creator

LiLi USB Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable USB key with a linux on it, with integrated virtualization.