Next Generation Desktops - screenies.

nadir-san

Ok, this is really another one of those screenies posts. *sigh another. yes, but with a difference. hehe, Ive been looking at the new xorg extensions 'composite' and 'damage' over at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=209039&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 .
Its quite clear, that there will be a whole new visual explosion on the linux desktop once window managers start to implement these extensions properly. xcompmgr is rather buggy at the moment but gives a taste of whats to come.
So Post up screenies (videos) of your desktops, lets see what window managers are using these functions best and what sort of eye candy all you gentoo freaks can come up with

you can emerge xvidcap to make movies, use the ~/.xvidcap.scf at http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Xvidcap.
and run

ioslipstream · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 33

Offtopic I know, but what movie is that you have playing in the vid?

eMPee584 · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject: wow. neat.

Very cool. Just compiling KDE3.3, hope the xorg 6.8 will be ready soon so soon I 2 can enjoy shady slickness! yum! :twisted:

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allucid · Veteran Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 1314 Location: atlanta

Anyone know when the 6.8 stable release is planned?

krolden · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:22 pm Post subject:

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nadir-san · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject:

The Movie is Azumi, by Ryuhei Kitamura who did Versus,
It stars Aya Ueto, a jpop star. http://imdb.com/title/tt0384819/

Titeuf · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject:

wow, this is cool
Your video will make me switch to the new x.org

searcher · Apprentice Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: NL

Does the new xserver feel `snappier' with these extra extensions? I was watching your cpu level on gkrellm, and they barely went above 30%. Glad to see they're finally offloading some stuff onto the gpu.

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Dr Gonzo · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:30 pm Post subject:

Yeah, it's snappier. I'm running the X 6.8-rc3, and it's pretty damn slick. [/url=http://www.carrieandbrian.info/Screenshot.png]Here[/url] is a picture of what I gots.

I have an nVidia GeForce FX5600, and the RENDER extension is what offloads the processing to the GPU. I'm not sure how good ATI support is, but I've seen some posts where people were having problems. nVidia is working on making everything stable with the new X release.

BTW, what do you guys think -- since Xorg is now the de facto standard for most distros, why don't we just start calling it X officially? Everybody calls it Xorg, but I like just X.

X X X X X X X X. The X Window System. These guys kick ass.

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John5788 · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:08 pm Post subject:

having some trouble here guys, i cant recode it into dixv.

IcE_364 · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Belgium

Wow really cool, i hope they release 6.8 soon

John5788 · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject:

k done uploading..

http://www.x5788.net/capture-01.mpeg

[edit]link no workey no more

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nadir-san · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:20 pm Post subject:

hehe you could use -ocv lavc

John5788 · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:41 pm Post subject:

http://www.diabloheat.com/xorg.tar.bz2 - faster mirror., use this

http://www.x5788.net/xorg.tar.bz2 - backup mirror, use this incase first one doesnt work

6mb now

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John5788 · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:00 am Post subject:

http://www.diabloheat.com/xorg2.tar.bz2 - faster mirror, use this

http://www.x5788.net/xorg2.tar.bz2 - backup mirror, use this incase first doesnt work

first one was a rough draft :wink:

this one is better.
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nadir-san · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:27 am Post subject:

heh, cool, im just grabbing the second one now, ill get it off the fast mirror.
fading is nice, Id like to see if someone has the -f option working properly, i hear in the latest xcompmgr cvs the minimising looks particurly cool, latest cvs build keeps crashing for me, but im working on it

frameRATE · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:55 am Post subject:

Is there a tutorial around for installing this? I'd love to try it out... (composite)
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miqorz · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 1:26 am Post subject:

I'll wait for this to be released and hit ~x86 personally..

The plain old meat and potatoes of X is enough for me right now.

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Off-topic

frameRATE · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 1:31 am Post subject:

Muso · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:08 am Post subject:

Well ... had problems using the command requested..... however, video capture worked fine using xvidcap.

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John5788 · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:12 am Post subject:

eh? that had nothing to do with xcomposite and xdamage..
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miqorz · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:47 am Post subject:

http://vortex.floppyhat.net/temp/capture-01.mpeg

I caved..