I’m glad to announce cairo-compmgr 0.2.2
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.To find out more about it, just point your browser to: http://cairo-compmgr.tuxfamily.org
It’s bugs fix release which improve glitz TFP backend.
To switch from xrender rendering to glitz TFP rendering do :
gconftool --set --type string /apps/cairo-compmgr/screen_0/general/backend glitz
gconftool --set --type bool /apps/cairo-compmgr/screen_0/general/native_pixmap_bind true
gconftool --set --type bool /apps/cairo-compmgr/screen_0/general/indirect true
and restart ccm.
To switch back on xrender rendering do :
gconftool --set --type string /apps/cairo-compmgr/screen_0/general/backend xrender
and restart ccm.
Changes since 0.2.1 release :
- API cleanup.
- Fix TFP mode.
- Magnifier performance improvement.
You can grab lastest source code here :
http://download.tuxfamily.org/ccm/cairo-compmgr/cairo-compmgr-0.2.2.tar.gz
You can found here the instructions to build ccm from source.
Binary packages for ubuntu hardy are also available to find out more about them, just point your browser to: http://cairo-compmgr.tuxfamily.org/download/binary-packages/
have fun
gandalfn
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Just one thing, I love it, thanks =))
Hi there! This is a great project, I really like the idea to render the complete desktop over cairo / glitz.
The last 2 days I compiled and tried everything and finally got ccm to work with glitz.
Unfortunately it does not render correctly, half of the screen is black!?
After I exit ccm, everything is fine again.
I ran all tests included in « cairogears », using xrender and glx, both outputs always look exactly the same (glx is much faster, of course). But when trying to use hardware AA (via -glx -hwaa) it says:
« hardware multi-sampling not available »
Does ccm use hwaa? If so, any way to disable it?
About my system
-Ubuntu 8.10 (2.6.27-9-generic)
-xorg.conf was already edited according to your guide (« XAAN.. » and « Load dbe » )
-I use Ati HD 3650 with newest proprietary drivers. There is no alternative to this I think. Is it correct that radeon(hd) does not support glx yet?!
Oh I forgot to post the error message returned from cairo-compmgr:
GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_engine_set: assertion `value != NULL’ failed
Tried to compile it. Then gave up when I saw it depends on Gnome, which wasn’t clearly stated…
Wish: could you make it Gnome free ? and GConf free too (though lower priority) ? I don’t see why it should depend on them, since a pure Gtk configuration UI could be made with about the same features, and params stored in some XDG compliant config file instead of gconf jail^Wblob^Wthing.
I’m probably an idiot, but I do not understand what Cairo Composite Manager offers. Can you add an « About » page or some « Features » list in the documentation?