First - there are currently two different compositing engines for Enlightenment. One of these is "Ecomorph" and it is the most commonly referenced when talking about compositing and E17. Ecomorph is not housed in the official E SVN and is not installed in Bodhi by default (you can find details on getting the Ecomorph source code here). Ecomorph is a slightly rough port of the famous "compiz fusion" for Enlightenment. It does not provide a consistent experience across a variety of hardware and it is no longer under active development - thus it is not recommended for usage.
For those who want a pleasant compositing experience with Enlightenment the E team has been developing their own compositing manager from scratch. E's compositing manager functions either via a software engine or with OpenGL support. This compositing engine is not based on, nor does it have any ties to Compiz. This is also the compositing engine you will find in use on the "Compositing" profile Bodhi ships with. This engine is not as feature rich as Compiz as of yet, but slowly it is gaining more and more advanced features.
If you have any questions or if anything is still unclear feel free to drop a comment below.
~Jeff Hoogland
I think E's compositing manager works great; I miss the wobbling effect I had on ecomorph though.
ReplyDeleteWhen I turn on the composting or sometimes turn it off, half of the screen gets black. I have nvidia geforce 7050/nforce 610i and the latest nvidia driver is installed. Then I have to delete .e direcotry to get rid of it.
ReplyDeleteWhat may be the reason for this half black screen?
It is a configuration issue with the engage launcher/dock bar at the bottom of the screen. Once you load compositing you need to keep it loaded or reset your configuration.
DeleteReset configuration? By deleting .e or something else?
DeleteE17 compositing is great but I just wish they could add wobbly windows and magic lamp effect.
ReplyDeleteI remember when the E17 team completely rejected (this was around 2006) the notion that they would leverage any kind of Xorg Compositing at all!
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- Jon
Your 'Scale Windows' Pager in the picture (shown above) seems to be capable to show the given background image of the different desktops. How would you achieve that?
ReplyDeleteI only get the background image of the current desktop, for all the desktops of the pager.
It does not. That image above is of different applications running on the different desktops.
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