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What is Compiz?
Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including GNOME and KDE.
Compiz has a flexible plug-in system and it is designed to run well on most graphics hardware.
The implementation of Compiz is based on using the new GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension of Xgl, AIGLX or NVIDIA for binding redirected top-level windows to texture objects.
Compiz Fusion
Compiz Fusion is a separate project which builds upon Compiz. Its homepage is http://www.compiz-fusion.org See Compiz Fusion Vs Compiz on the Compiz Fusion wiki.
Mailing Lists
The Compiz mailing list is hosted on freedesktop.org: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz. The This list should only be used for discussing Compiz itself. For discussing Compiz Fusion, the Compiz Fusion project has has several subject-based mailing lists: http://lists.compiz-fusion.org/.
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Stable release
The current stable release is version 0.6.2.
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/compiz-0.6.2.tar.bz2
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/compiz-0.6.2.tar.gz
Git tag: compiz-0.6.2 (111d5994a8b5a0a3b4b8bf12b566dcd2a7c51d30)
SHA1 Checksum: ab5ecad856049a12a803fe6c94c3e55cdfcb5f68 compiz-0.6.2.tar.gz
Development Release
The current development release is version 0.7.8.
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/compiz-0.7.8.tar.gz
Git tag: compiz-0.7.8 (6069eec2533f9cf814c932d9e651e35fe8f3d953)
SHA1 Checksum: 985bb33837b760ad656e3ce541f4ac5c47507c0c compiz-0.7.8.tar.gz
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Source Code Access
$ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/compiz
For more instructions on using Git with freedesktop.org projects, see UsingGit. Gitweb allows browsing the changes on the web.
Reporting Bugs
Use bugzilla to report bugs or suggest enhancements. The product is xorg and component is App/compiz.