Xrender

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... Platforms: *nix

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... Platforms: *nix

Cairo Composite Manager is a versatile and extensible composite manager which use cairo for rendering. Rendering can be done in 2D or 3D, using Xrender and Glitz backends. Plugins can be used to add some cool effects to your desktop. The goal of cairo-compmgr is to provide an easy way to... Platforms: *nix

Proof of concept. THIS IS FOR XRENDER COMPOSITING ONLY! KDE 4.5 will bring back blurring, but for OpenGL only. You do not require 4.5, but plasma doesn't use it before and i do actually not relly recommand to use it for "normal" windows (in combination with Bespin or ?QtCurve?) Since XRender... Platforms: *nix