lokster wrote:
PS: just to be clear: lokster is NOT Lobster despite our nicknames sound similar. Its just a coincidence.
I'm not convinced. Lobster likes success stories. What better way to engineer that than to discuss a self-created invented problem with someone you pretend is not yourself? Eventually someone else will come along with a solution, allowing you to finish off the thread neatly with all-round pats on the back, and general expressions of good karma between yourself and your mirror.
However, I think you would garner more readers to the thread if you instead got into a blazing argument with "each other". Nothing like blood and broken mirrors to create an alienation effect sufficient for the promulgation of your positive propaganda!
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come to think of it... tombh seems to have also "joined" the forum very recently (in terms of posts). I am almost now certain that everyone contributing to this thread (apart from myself) is the same person..!
mcewanw wrote:come to think of it... tombh seems to have also "joined" the forum very recently (in terms of posts). I am almost now certain that everyone contributing to this thread (apart from myself) is the same person..!
are you getting those suggestions from the voice you hear in the left ear or in the right.
I have raindrops . I tried the compiz_test02.pet and noticed that in the /tmp/xerrs.log file that compiz complains about text.so not being the correct ABI whatever that means - I think it is working OK, though text does seem to stretch badly when you resize a window.
This is the first time I have seen compiz in action. I was previously very sceptical about 'wobbly windows' and their value, but now I am bitten.
The effects are awesome {still dont like wobblies though so I switched them off}. I showed some of the guys at work who have just shelled out vast sums for new machines with vista - they were gobsmacked.
Yeah I get the strange stretching of text in the window title too. Though I don't see the 'wrong ABI' error thing in xerrs.log
Another thing I noticed is that I get a fairly significant CPU spike with little animated things, eg. these animated smiley faces on the forum, or the page-loading indicator in firefox, or the visualizer-thing in amarok. I did read somewhere that this was a compiz thing and that it had been addressed in certain circumstances. But then again it could just be my old hardware? It hasn't actually been a problem yet, so not to worry.
Although one thing that I haven't sorted yet is full-screen video playback. Mplayer has to be using x11 to play video (and gxine xshm (flash in opera seems to work fine)) but then it won't play fullscreen However, I have tried using the Enhanced Zoom Plugin on the mplayer window to simulate fullscreen and it's actually pretty watchable!
This is sooo coool. I have been playing with the compiz snow plugin. As I had a space background I used Star Wars xwing and tiefighter images as snow textures and have them flying across the screen from right to left. Now I have an animated background !
The files are attached, and the snow settings I use are;-
Number of Snowflakes : 150
Size of Snowflakes : Max
Snow Speed : 90
Update Delay : 10
Screen Boxing : 1000
Screen Depth : 1000
Rotate off
Snow Direction : Right to left
When I had compiz installed on my pc (sempron 1.8ghz 512mb geforce2 64mb) I would watch DVDs just fine fullscreen.... just make sure that mplayer is setup to use the opengl driver in preferences I know that one worked I can 't remember if the other ones did...
the video will play full screen on one side of the cube and the colors might get messed up it you rotate or take screenshots but OK otherwize
FYI my card has no shaders but does fire just fine.... and snow in compiz (not in beryl) but water effects have yet to appear... I don't see why water effects would be soo hard since I can do some basic water effects with xdesktopwave and that is not even accelerated...
the geforce2 does have NSR's though so maybe those are being used?
wikipedia>>
The GeForce2 also introduced the NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR), which was actually a primitive form of what is known as pixel shaders today, though they were not programmable and only found use in tech demos.
Thanks cb88, I have actually got snow and fire! I just hadn't set the keybindings to ones that worked. The Super (windows button) key and F-keys don't seem to work. But as soon as I changed them, bingo! A white Christmas in front of a roasty open fire
I tried the OpenGL (and gl2) video driver in mplayer and although it did play full screen, it just flickered too much and wouldn't zoom for the cube rotation, in fact I couldn't even get the right-click menu too close full screen until I stopped the video with the space bar.
Oh yeah, stars wars snow over earth I never thought I'd see such a thing, brilliant.