[OT] Good to be back: An experiment with Compiz

[Scott Jones]

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 16:22, Robin Haswell wrote:

> Hm. I'm guessing here, but shouldn't it be possible with the X Composite
> extension? AFAIK, Composite works by drawing windows off-screen then
> compositing them in-place. Is it possible to use this feature to draw apps
> off-screen then draw resized version of them on-screen? I'm sure it would
> be treacle-slow compared to scaling them in hardware, but.. doable?

Skippy (http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php) might be what you are looking for.  
Just tried it here on this old creaky machine, and it seems to run okay.  
Couldn't test the -xd version, though, as this vid card doesn't handle 
Composite.