Compiz
Compositing window manager for the X Window System / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Compiz (/kɒmpɪz/) is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. Effects, such as a minimization animation or a cube workspace, are implemented as loadable plugins. Because it conforms to the ICCCM conventions, Compiz can be used as a substitute for the default Mutter or Metacity, when using GNOME Panel, or KWin in KDE Plasma Workspaces. Internally Compiz uses the OpenGL library as the interface to the graphics hardware.
Compositing window manager for the X Window System
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 Screenshot showing the Cube plugin for Compiz on Fedora | |
| Developer(s) | David Reveman, Sam Spilsbury, Danny Baumann, Dennis Kasprzyk, Daniel van Vugt |
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| Initial release | 2006; 17 years ago (2006) |
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| Written in | C, C++, Python |
| Operating system | Unix-like with X11 |
| Type | X window manager |
| License | GPL, core: MIT license |
| Website | launchpad |
