I ♥ AIGLX/Compiz

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My desktop is complete.

After a good week of searching google, messing with config files in Vim (my new favorite program) and killing renegade xorg processes after crashing gdm, I finally got AIGLX and Compiz to work on my computer.

It’s so cool.

My workspace switcher is a cube or a filmstrip depending on the mood, my windows have shadows, my menus fade, I can put little water droplets on my desktop (utterly useless but pretty tight) and best of all, it doesn’t run any slower than it did before.

I owe my success to a tutorial prepared by Hugues Clouâtre in his Blogspot post. Though I have to say I’m quite proud of myself for discovering the residual Compiz config left over from a failed attempt at installing XGL.

Maybe I can stop talking about Linux now….