Kwin

kwin dropshadow patch for kde is the well known KDE KWin dropshadow patch ported to KDE Version 3.5.7, but it may apply to all 3.5.x Versions (untested!) For all ATI users and those whose laptops are too slow for real composite (like mine is).. kwin dropshadow patch for kde 3.5.7 KDE-Apps.org...

Polyester is a widget style + kwin decoration both aimed to be a good balance between eye candy and simplicity.. Polyester KDE-Look.org Community Portal for KDE Themes Wallpapers Icons Sounds Screenshots Schemes Skins Skinz Screensavers Splash Screens K-Jofol IceWM Kaiman News Forum GUI Polls...

Aquamarine package contains the KWin themes for the Beryl project. Aquamarine provides support for KDE users who dont want to give up their KWin theme. Featuring full KWin theme support as well as direct integration with KControl, users dont have to know the difference..


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I needed a way to switch kwin decoration library to a less ressource consuming and less buggy (kwin3_oxygen, kwin3_plastik) when i desactivate desktop effects and restore my default decoartion library (kwin3_aurore, kwin3_bespin) when i reactivate it.


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More generally, it is intended to work with window managers that use the concept of "large desktops" instead of "multiple virtual desktops" as kwin does exclusively. Technically, it is a matter of respecting window managers standards as defined by EWMH...


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kbox lets you natively use blackbox, openbox, and fluxbox styles within kwin. Most styles are rendered correctly, with a few exceptions (read the TODO/Bug list later in this page). Features: Ability to set custom button positions. Ability to pick between KDE's titlebar colors and that of the...


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Scale Up is a KWin effect to smoothly maximize and restore windows. Developer comments Please note this is *not* the right approach to implement smooth size change, so please don't take it too seriously. There's a sudden change in the beginning of animation. That's because the application has...


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A KWin FX to drop and slide windows across your screen when opened, closed & (un)minimized. Popups shade, the rest fades. Also provides hakkish attempt to animate window shading. Notes: - Shading is done by scaling. No prob on OpenGL, but you need good scaling support on XRender (for nvidia try...


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Aurorae Designer is an application to preview KWin Aurorae themes and edit the configuration of the theme. Aurorae Designer provides an interactive way to design the theme and helps the designer to package a complete theme.


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Backstep is a program that draws icons for minimized windows on your desktop. It doesnt depend on the window manager or on a desktop-drawing program (for example, I use it with Nautilus). It is meant to work with window managers that are EWHM compliant. However, I only know for sure that it...


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Icon execute feedback replaces the zooming rectangle that is drawn if you activate an icon in konqueror for execution feedback. It removes the rectangle and instead zooms the icon bigger and fades it out while doing. Its like MacOS X execution feedback. Currently works in Konqueror, Kicker and...


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Comix is a flat style for KDE 3.2+. I hope this adds a little more fun to your desktop. Thanks to all the authors of previous styles published for KDE. Please read AUTHORS, README and TODO. Use the styles configuration button to overwrite the contour drawing color. Use KDEs ControlCenter...


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Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users. Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and respond to the requests of the user base. Beryl is a combined window manager and...


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KDesktop transparency support is a KDE patch that adds support for real transparency to kdesktop. It adds two new composite manager related features. To activate the features kdesktop has to be started with the "--bg-transparency" option. The first one allows you to change the opacity of the...


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Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also it may have something to do with the Meta key on the UNIX keyboards. Here are some key features of "Mutter": ?*A* Uses GTK+ 2.0 for drawing...


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BeClock is a simple clock, implemented as KWin Effect. - This is NO plasmoid! - You need active desktop FX to use this clock - The idea is somewhat experimental Installation: tar -xjf beclock-kwin-fx.x.y.tbz cd beclock-kwin-fx mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config...


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Since the Oxygen decoration paints it's own shadows, the shadow plugin got pretty stepchilded. a) it's horribly imperformant (if I play a video it's causing ~2/3 of the kwin cpu load...) b) it's broken with XRender & translucency c) it could use some more options ;-) d) The heavy exponential...


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