Leight weight Compiz for xfce

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Leight weight Compiz for xfce

Postby viking60 » 29 Jun 2014, 11:17

Manjaro has blown life into Compiz and have removed the heavy duty gnome dependencies to make it lightweight.
It has reached the stable repos and is quite impressive - as Compiz always has been:

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All the good old compiz effects are, there and I have to admit that I liked them during my Gnome 2 days. Now I can use them again in a light version :B
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And I must admit that it has far more options than kwin.

But since moods change i have made a button to switch between Kwin,Xfwm4 (the default) and Compiz.
So when I am in a mood to write on my desktop with burning flames and put it out with water - I switch to Compiz :-D
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It works wonders when Windows boys feel sorry for me when I am in Openbox or even in plain CLI with tmux. and show me all the GUI stuff windows can do.

After a switch to Compiz and do some magic stuff - they are completely silent and in awe :-D
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If you need it?
..eh no.. not at all - but you can use it - That is the beauty of Linux. +1
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Re: Manjaro leight weight Compiz for xfce

Postby viking60 » 30 Jun 2014, 16:33

Just admit it; You are impressed: :-D
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Re: Leight weight Compiz for xfce

Postby dedanna1029 » 28 Dec 2014, 22:38

Yeeeeeeesss! Have been waiting to see if this would come 'round! Yay! You know how much I love compiz, how functional it is for me. Good to know! :)

Using XFCE for the most part too when I can get a box going.

Impressed? Oh, hell yeah!
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Re: Leight weight Compiz for xfce

Postby viking60 » 05 Jan 2015, 10:34

:s :jackpot
Yup it does have the Wow factor +1
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Compiz revived

Postby viking60 » 23 Jan 2015, 14:49

This Compiz has been solid and stable without any problems so it is well maintained despite some Google results saying otherwise.

That magnifying glass is really usefull when I want to point out sections in a video...
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Re: Leight weight Compiz for xfce

Postby dedanna1029 » 28 Mar 2015, 00:18

Yup, you KNOW I'm damn impressed. Always was a compiz junkie.
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Re: Leight weight Compiz for xfce

Postby Snorkasaurus » 28 Mar 2015, 00:45

Special effects are so lost on me.
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Re: Leight weight Compiz for xfce

Postby dedanna1029 » 11 Apr 2015, 19:23

They're quite functional for me. There's some old desktop pics in the desktop thread from when I used it before circumstances deemed I couldn't any more.

It made things quicker and easier to find and use, as well as several other things.

To each his own though.
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