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Compiz

Compositing window manager for the X Window System

Softwarecompositing manager free softwareQ819563

Developer: Matthias Hopf
Founded: August 2006
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1.wiki.compiz.org/ProjectHistoryRetrieved 2019-08-26
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Latest version: 0.9.14.2
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1.“Compiz 0.9.14.2 released”lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2022-August/003539.htmlRetrieved 2022-08-26
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, 0.9.12.2
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1.“Compiz 0.9.12.2”launchpad.net/compiz/0.9.12/0.9.12.2
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, 0.9.13
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1.launchpad.net/compiz/0.9.13
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Written in: C
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1.openhub.net/p/compiz/analyses/latest/languages_summary
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License: MIT License
, GNU General Public License
Operating system: Linux
, Unix-like operating system
Website: compiz.org

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Compiz is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. Effects, such as a minimization animation or a cube workspace, are implemented as loadable plugins. Because it conforms to the ICCCM conventions, Compiz can be used as a substitute for the default Mutter or Metacity, when using GNOME Panel, or KWin in KDE Plasma Workspaces. Internally Compiz uses the OpenGL library as the interface to the graphics hardware.

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GUI toolkit or framework: OpenGL
Has use: X window manager
Copyright status: copyrighted

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