scale/expose for xfwm4?

samuel samuel.verstraete at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 13:30:30 CEST 2008


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Miek Gieben <miek at miek.nl> wrote:
> [ Quoting samuel in "Re: scale/expose for xfwm4?"... ]
>> > Or there any architectural problems which make this (very) difficult?
>>
>> afaik the scale plugin of Compiz would depend on openGL ? and afaik
>> xfwm4 doesn't provide any way to use openGL ?
>
> openGL and compositor are nice, but right now I'm interested in the core
> expose functionality: re-arrange the windows (possibly resize them
> too), so that I can pick one.
>
> A proof of concept can be created with 'wmctrl' and some shell code.

will be horribly slow.
there was something like "skippy" that worked with any window
manager... not sure if the project is still out there... but that was
a kind of expose clone for X

>
> grtz Miek
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