Cairo Composite Manager A versatile and extensible composite manager which use cairo for rendering.
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A versatile and extensible composite manager which use cairo for rendering. Cairo Composite Manager is a versatile and extensible composite manager which use cairo for rendering. Rendering can be done in 2D or 3D, using Xrender and Glitz backends. Plugins can be used to add some cool effects to your desktop. The goal of cairo-compmgr is to provide an easy way to multiple rendering for compositing. I created it to fix a few specific problems we faced at work : we need to do compositing without using the GPU in a specific screen or, on the contraty, use only the GPU on another screen. We were also willing to keep Metacity as the window manager for various reasons. We first tried to enhance Metacity compositing features, but it doesn't provide any way to do 2D rendering, and it lead to several regressions. Cairo is the best solution to do the rendering in 2D, 3D or both, but the main problem is that we cannot use Texture From Pixmap extension because it is an OpenGL feature. The lack of this extension induces some performance problems. Indeed, cairo-compmgr needs to copy the pixmap provided by Xcomposite onto surface : to do so, cairo-compmgr does a XCopyArea from Pixmap to Ximage, from which it makes the final surface. This solution is a good way to get the surface but it implies some slowness, which cairo-compmgr tries to workaround by using Xshm to accelerate transfers, though this isn't enough to provide correct performances. To minimize these problems, cairo-compmgr tries to optimize the redraw of damaged areas. CCM is using GObject for object model design and provides a plugin system which can be used to add various effects. At the moment "shadow" and "menu transparency" plugins are available, and others coming soon. To finish, cairo-compmgr aims not to add too many shortcuts and options which could conflict with the window manager, but we'll try to interact with it to add effects. In the future, I'm planning to add a clutter backend, some means for other applications to interact with cairo-compmgr (especially accessibility applications), some cool plugins, etc. Requirements: · gtk+ · Cairo · Glitz What's New in This Release: · first many performance improvement · all dependencies of libgnome are removed · perf plugin and it’s depencies to libgtop has became optionnal · all settings are migrated to key files located in user dirs ($HOME/.config/cairo-compmgr), if you want use gconf you can force cairo-compmgr to use it with –use-gconf paramater when you launch it. · a new snapshot plugin is added which provide to take a snapshot of screen region when you selected an area with mouse and (Windows) button pressed or take a snapshot of window when you click on it with pressed. · a new decoration plugin which allow to have alpha window decoration. · the region management has completly rewrite and now use pixman (>=0.12). · the shadow has improved to manage better and take less ressource to draw shadow. · the window transformation has be rewritten, it manage now a stack of transformation on paint. · an experimental input redirection is available without any Xorg patch is available, it needs some work to be functionnal. · an new settings dialog and API is available, it is really on beginning for now it only manage the plugin activation/desactivation. · ccm support vala binding and it have a sample vala plugin (vala-window-plugin) · a very experimental automate plugin which record/play user input is available too. · API documentation is added and available here : http://cairo-compmgr.tuxfamily.org/reference/ · and some others fixes

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