Compiz-Fusion ...

[RoyGBiv]

Well, well, well ...

Due to comments kgfnally made the other day, I decided to mess with compiz-fusion the other day when bored. It'd been a few months since I had, and back then I had a bit of trouble turning it off when I wanted, which was fairly often. The comment that it is pretty easy to turn off now is what motivated me.

Still some quirks in this, but it is finally starting to look and more importantly *act* like a polished product with some use other than plain eye-candy. I really like being able to use the function mimicked by Expose' on the Mac that will spread out all open windows and let you choose from the result the one you want to be using with a single click. Great for people who tend to find themselves with a dozen or more open windows and no idea where in the layers the one I need is. (I'll also end up opening things more than once because I forget I already have one open. This lets me get a quick look to see if I do rather than rummage around all of them searching.

But the eye-candy is nice and does have a functional side. I hate being distracted by decorations to the point I'm having to look past them to get my work done, and this lets me do pleasing schemes that make the overall desktop experience much better.

Anyway ... still playing but have had it running for two days now and haven't needed to turn it off. Quirks are still there of course. Occasionally things slow down, and I did manage to break it to the point I needed to reboot (I was trying to break it), but this is far different than the last experience I had when the breaking happened without my trying very hard.

This is definitely a project well on its way...