COMPIZ FUSION LINUX: 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