GNU/Linux Feburary 2006 Desktops

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mrogers

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My current desktop, sporting a picture of the new Yamaha P-120S digital piano I won today on eBay...very excited! Also watching the Olympics :yes:

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Ubuntu 5.10

Window border and system icons from OSX bundle at gnome-look.org

GTK controls are Clearlooks-Clarity

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mrogers

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/\ Nice, is that a Canadian speed skater I see there?

p.s. You have updates you know, I also use Ubuntu but my APT is dependency wacko.

Actually if I remember correctly that was a Chinese girl. I think. I don't know, I was tired. :D

That update icon is there because an update for Wine is available but it fails in the middle of the download every time I tell it to update.

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yhan

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yeh it runs really really smooth on my 6600gt. the only situations i notice some glitches are when heavily multitasking, but cpu's fault (my 2ghz celeron is crap). i think giving a bit higher cpu priority to compiz, xserver and xgl would do it.

about beating mac os x not so fast. gnome's interface is getting more and more coherent over releases and xgl is awesome, but this is still catch-up to os x, they've had hw accelerated desktop for years now and an amazingly designed UI.

i'm quite sure we'll see compositing arriving to other WM's like kde's, metacity, enlightenment, etc.. so it'll get more mainstream over the next releases of the main distros.

but the main point remains: you've gotta see it in action! it's awesome!

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I agree, XGL quite cool. I had a lot of fun playing with it on my secondary installation, but I can't use it every day mainly because a) lack of multi-mon support, and b) still some bugs, like you can't move dialog windows without holding down Alt. However, as it develops I think XGL/Compiz will become quite a force in the modern Linux desktop. I can tell that it has a solid foundation and so far I haven't been able to make it crash. But if you have dual monitors, don't even waste your time at this point.

@yahn -- KDE's window manager (kwin) already has compositing built in. So do a number of others. It's all about stability, resource utilization, and coolness factor. So far, I think XGL has it. If only they would add multi-monitor support!!!

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kevcart3

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^ You will need x.org 7.0 to get it running, so a standard breezy installation won't work right. The best bet right now is to install a secondary installation of dapper, which has x.org 7 on it, and try to get it working from there.

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