What is Compiz Fusion

What is Compiz Fusion ?

(Taken from AboutCompizFusion Wiki page)

Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the well-known Beryl composite window manager and Compiz Extras, a community set of improvements to the Compiz composite window manager. Compiz Fusion aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness. The first Compiz Fusion developer release was Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 on August 13th 2007, shortly after Compiz 0.5.2 was released. First stable release of Compiz Fusion is 0.6.0 released on October 20 2007.

Compiz Fusion is an open-source software project, meaning anyone can use it freely and contribute.

It is important to note that Compiz and Compiz Fusion are not the same thing (see: Compiz Fusion Vs Compiz). There is close co-operation between the developers of Compiz and the developers of Compiz Fusion, though ; in fact, many Compiz Fusion developers are also Compiz developers.

What Compiz is

Compiz is a compositing window manager. It has a flexible plugin interface which allows developers to use it for many different tasks.

More specifically, Compiz is a software project with its home at freedesktop.org. It contains a limited set of core plugins, some of which provide basic window manager functionality, other internal functionality that plugins may rely on, and some basic, yet signature effects (Cube and Wobbly to name a few). You can use Compiz on its own, as many choose to do, but you can also extend it. Compiz is what we consider the core of what Compiz Fusion is based on.

What Compiz is not

• Compiz is not Xgl or AIGLX. Rather, Compiz uses these technologies.
• Compiz is not obsolete; it is still in active development.
• Compiz is not the same as Compiz Fusion.
• Compiz does not require any particular desktop environment. It can run independently.

What Compiz Fusion is

Compiz Fusion is a project that aims to add more functionality to Compiz by extending it with more plugins, tools and libraries.

Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the Beryl Project and Compiz Extras. It should be noted that what core changes were made to Beryl are not part of Compiz Fusion; they have either been merged or rewritten for Compiz, or remade as Compiz plugins. Changes that were difficult to maintain or potentially unstable were scrapped.

Compiz Fusion uses Compiz as a base. Among the additions it makes are tools like the CompizConfig Settings Manager, libcompizconfig, and a number of plugins.

What Compiz Fusion is not

• Compiz Fusion is not a replacement for Compiz.
• Compiz Fusion is not Beryl with a new name.

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Compiz Applications

Compiz Fusion is a collection of plugins and a configuration system for the Compiz compositing window manager for the X Window System. Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the old Compiz community plugin set "Compiz Extras" and the parts of the Beryl project that are independent of the window manager core.

The aim of the project is to port almost all of the features of Beryl to Compiz plugins, and continue to write further Compiz plugins. At the same time, Beryl has been discontinued and Compiz will add some of the core changes made by Beryl to the Compiz core.

History

Compiz Fusion is the result of the re-unification of the Beryl-project and the community around the Compiz Window Manager.^[1] The name was changed to Compiz Fusion from the tentative name of CompComm.^[2]

Compiz Fusion is fairly simple to install on most open source operating systems provided the hardware can support it.

On October 4, 2007, openSUSE 10.3 became the first major distribution to officially provide Compiz Fusion packages, as well as shipping with Compiz.^[3]

On October 18, 2007 Ubuntu 7.10 followed by using Compiz Fusion as the default window manager on supported hardware.^[4]

Compiz Fusion Plugin Sets

Main Plugins[5]	Extra Plugins[6]	Unsupported Plugins[7]	Experimental/Third-Party Plugins[8]
Animation	3D Windows	Fake ARGB	Compiz-Scheme
Color filter	ADD Helper	Snow	Sound
Expo	Benchmark	Mouse Switch	Visual Event
Enhanced Zoom Desktop	Crash handler	Tile	Cube Atlantis
JPEG	Cube Addon	Screensaver	Anaglyph
Negative	Extra WM Actions	Freewins	Wiimote + Wiitrack
Opacify	Fade to Desktop		Photowheel
Put	Firepaint		CubeDBUS
Resize info	Cube Gears
Ring Switcher	Group and Tab Windows
Shift Switcher	Motion blur
Scale Addons	Reflection
Snapping Windows	Scale Window Title Filter
Text	Show desktop
Window Previews	Splash
Viewport Switcher	Trailfocus
Desktop Wall	Widget Layer
Window Rules	Wallpaper
Workarounds

References

1. Compiz and Beryl are Reuniting - Compiz Community Forums
2. [compiz] CompComm has a real name!
3. Francis Giannaros (Thursday, October 4th, 2007). openSUSE 10.3 Release. openSUSE News. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
4. Ubuntu and Canonical (Monday, October 15th, 2007). Canonical Launches Latest Ubuntu Desktop. Ubuntu News. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
5. Plugins-Main on the official Compiz Fusion Wiki
6. Plugins-Extra on the official Compiz Fusion Wiki
7. Plugins-Unsupported on the official Compiz Fusion Wiki
8. Experimental Plugins on the official Compiz Fusion Wiki

What is Compiz?

Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE.

• Window management has never looked so enticing: Through OpenGL accelerated compositing, Compiz provides tons of new visual effects. It's also flexible enough so you could easily add more through a plugin system.

• Compiz is compatible: Any X Window System based desktop environment, including (but not limited to) Gnome and KDE, is supported.

Features

• Easily extendible through plugins.
• A growing, friendly community of users.
• Increases productivity and enjoyment.
• Impress your family and friends.
• Compiz is actively developed.

Documentation

• Documentation Central
• Building from source

Compiz 0.5.2 released

We are happpy to announce the 0.5.2 release of compiz. Among countless optimizations and fixes it now offers better multi-screen support, a logging framework, improved plugin- and option-systems and the often demanded cube transparency. This release is scheduled with the initial release of compiz-fusion (0.5.2), the new community-driven project that is aimed at extending the compiz window manager.

Download

v0.6.2 (stable)	compiz-0.6.2.tar.gz
v0.7.6 (development)	compiz-0.7.6.tar.gz