[GRLUG] Xgl vs aiglx

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed May 20 09:54:58 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:26 -0400, Steve Romanow wrote:
> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > Nope, I was wrong. I don't see it so far without XGL enabled. Also XGL
> > crashes when I open the WMOGAG master document in OO writer,  which
> > seems oddly specific.  But at least the system nicely falls back to
> > non-3d-accelerated desktop and I don't loose any apps.
> My info is a little outdated, but between Xgl and aiglx, which has won? 

Looks like my understanding is outdated.  openSUSE is using AIGLX, not
XGL.  And what openSUSE uses is what I consider to have "won". 

<quote source="http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz">
Up to and including openSUSE 10.2 Compiz only works in combination with
Xgl. But from 10.3, Xorg alone is enough. ... Beginning with Compiz
version 0.3.7 in the Factory and 10.2-Xorg7.2 trees it will run also
with AIGLX out-of-the-box....
</quote>

Interesting on <http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl>
<quote>
WARNING: The Beryl project has been merged with Compiz Extras to provide
Compiz Fusion; you will most probably want to use that from now on
</quote>

So it looks like there has been a clear winner @
<http://www.compiz.org/>



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