[GRLUG] eye candy anyone?

[Mark Van Holstyn]

2 of my house mates run OSX dual screen. though ive never dealt with it., it
seems to work well for them. performances does not seem to degrade at all,
though they both have new intel macs.

mark

On 7/16/06, zdennis <zdennis at mktec.com> wrote:
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Jorge La wrote:
> > I've been running OS X for quite a while, and i've gotta say it, XGL is
> > giving Aqua a run for the money.
> >
>
> XGL is pretty nice in terms of eye candy!
>
> > I would test XGL right now, because i have Breezy Badger and SuSE 10.1
> > which support XGL, but, i haven't spent time to actully configure it
> > yet. :-/
>
> I run Kubuntu Dapper with XGL at home, and it's pretty nice. I don't run
> it full time now though because Xorg7 won't run dual monitors off from
> two different video cards for me, and I have to use a crappy 32Mb nvidia
> dual-head card, and I can't get XGL to span two monitors, although
> normal X will. Although I know it can be done!
>
> >
> > Oh btw, i've seen tutorials where u can make GNOME or KDE look JUST like
> > aqua... soo.. add XGL to that and you'll have a frick'n sweet desktop!
> :o
>
> I think KDE with XGL standalone is pretty sit. I'm not a huge fan of the
> dashboard, to me it gets in the way and you're always having to move it
> to different sides of the screen to get it out of the way. But that
> could just be me. I'm resisting the OSX crazes, I may be overly bias. =)
>
> Also, I've never seen OSX go dual screen or triple screen. Is this
> possible and does it work nice?
>
> Zach
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>
> iD8DBQFEunnXMyx0fW1d8G0RAncNAJ9sxoXn8kN9fWiaLT9CgKzeAwg6FgCfWOfB
> vBNvlowQyPoLo4XnfFuZGLY=
> =+0T+
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> _______________________________________________
> grlug mailing list
> grlug at grlug.org
> http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug
>



-- 
Mark Van Holstyn
mvette13 at gmail.com
http://lotswholetime.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://shinobu.grlug.org/pipermail/grlug/attachments/20060716/8e869102/attachment.htm