dailo Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Do you think it will be posible one day to run Compiz or Beryl within OSX? Seems like it runs on FreeBSD, maybe it can be ported over to OSX to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I think if you wanna play with Compiz/Xgl, install linux! No, Mac OS X has an integrated windows manager/renderer called quartz and firstly it would be hard to remove from the OS, seeing as it's so tightly integrated (and closed source), secondly it would be very hard to get compiz running in X11 or whatever, and performance is sure to be bad, unstable etc. and thirdly, quartz is great and arguable better in many respects, if not merely equal. Mac OS X comes with some great technologies, but it can't really be user-modified like linux can. You're pretty much stuck with what Apple come up with. Not that that's a bad thing! (Still drooling over every anti-aliased and hinted gorgeous font on my computer!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Actually, you have compiz on OS X. It is called "Quartz Compositor" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailo Posted December 1, 2006 Author Share Posted December 1, 2006 Thanks. Just drooling over all the crazy effects Beryl/Compiz has. Although completely uneccessary, but nonetheless pretty sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcslayer Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I think you could port it to the Darwin system, because in Darwin, we could use native X11. How about plugin for Quartz like plugin for Compiz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I've tried to compile it, but with no success. There are too many missing dependencies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Sorry for the double post! MAC OS X crashed on me, whaddayaknow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 seems like this guy might have managed to do it: Moksha, now that is one nice catch.I have found that X11 now supports XGL over SSH when you enable a nested session on the destination system on your VC-# (does not work in Tiger). Sure, it takes some real hacking to get working right (both sides), however WINDOW DEFORMATIONS now work! (Some of you may call it Defications because warping windows while you are trying to work may seem like a complete waste of time and resources, but try saying that when you are typing a URL into Firefox and your auto-completion/select box below your address bar starts rippling with each new option added. It really turns some heads!) You can even use the XGL equivilant to Expose' for all of your X11 windows, and it even pulls windows from other Spaces Desktops when you go CTRL-F8 (Remapped from Normal F8 on remote system through Compiz-Setup to not conflict with my Powerbook's F8 for spaces). Not quite sure what he means, but he does speak of XGL. It was in the Leopard forums http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=176591 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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