OpenOffice for Mac Gathers Steam
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| The OpenOffice.org Mac Porting team Wednesday released the third development
| snapshot of the Aqua version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143633-pg,1/article.html
[Compiz Fusion] Freewins
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| Freewins is quite a simple plugin, just get some cursor movement events and
| rotate and scale some windows around. As you may recall, I added features
| like scaling, shaping and key-movement a while back. The problem with
| freewins was that it tells compiz to redraw the entire screen every single
| time a window is rotated and the screen needs to be updated. Thing is, that
| we don’t need to update the whole screen - usually only a little bit has
| changed, like a carat blinking on your terminal. Updating parts of the screen
| has been around in compiz for a while, but freewins hasn’t made use of it
| until now.
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| Using some somewhat complicated mathematics and OpenGL code, I’ve managed to
| get Freewins to update only the necessary areas of the screen by tracking 4
| points in 3D, projecting them into 2D and then drawing a box based on those
| points. The resulting box fully covers the window while transformed in any
| way and only the window is refreshed, not the whole screen.
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http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/freewins/
Related:
Compiz 0.7.0 Adds Multi-Display Support
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| For the Compiz user, there is now multi-display support, various fixes in
| stacking and handling, configurable middle and right click buttons through
| gtk-window-decorator, and a KDE 4 port of the kde-window-decorator.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMyNA
Five Compiz features to boost Linux productivity
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| The cube is perhaps the most hyped feature of the 3D desktop. And,
| surprisingly, I found that once you actually start using it Cube is actually
| quite useful, and not just flashy. When cube is enabled you can use the
| Ctrl-Alt key combination together with mouse to rotate the cube and display
| all the desktops you have active. It is remarkably easy to use and actually
| makes it easier to switch through desktops rapidly.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2006
Shelf Plugin preview
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| I’ve been working on a new Compiz Fusion plugin currently known as Shelf (it
| was named miniwin2 for a brief period, more on this further down). This is a
| fairly straight forward idea, and I’m doing this as a bounty for Canonical.
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http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/12/12/shelf-plugin-preview/
How Beryl/XGL and Deskbar simplified my life
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| I removed the standard Gnome Window List in favor of
| Beryl's Scale plugin. Beryl's Scale functionality
| resembles OSX's Expose functionality. Because the Scale
| plugin displays all the windows currently open and
| unminimized at a keypress, I can quickly find the
| window I want visually and select it either with
| the mouse or with the arrow keys.
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http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/2006/10/25/how-berylxgl-and-deskbar-simplified-my-life/
http://tinyurl.com/u2g3d
KDE 4.0.0 - KWin Composite Showcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrFz7IxXppU
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