Vim rendered on a cube for no reason

Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by autojoechen on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:41PM (#22743527)

I remember compiz! https://launchpad.net/compiz. Looks to be still actively maintained

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Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by c9fc42ad on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:53PM (#22743649)

Oh man, compiz-fusion is what got me interested in Linux. I remember seeing videos circa 2007-8 of people's desktops with all sorts of crazy stuff. Cube desktops, wobbly windows, fire trails, etc. I spent forever figuring out how to dual boot Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows and learned a ton so I could setup these effects. Fast forward 12 years and now I only use Linux on servers without a desktop interface at all.

While this stuff may seem silly and pointless, you'll never know who it'll inspire to dive in to a whole new world. I'm glad it's being maintained still

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Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by fenwick67 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @08:59PM (#22744592)

Same here, compiz was directly responsible for me trying out Linux on CD

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Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by divbzero on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:18AM (#22745929)

It’s silly but loads of fun. My first Linux was also Ubuntu c. 2007-2008 and I got a kick out of using a cube desktop that neither Windows nor Mac had.

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Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by lfowles on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:40PM (#22743523)

Whatever happened to the promise of cube desktops with wobbly windows?

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Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by the_pwner224 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:32PM (#22743976)

I am using Wobbly Windows right now in KDE. Desktop Cube works too but I don't like it (I use 16 desktops instead of 4 :).

When I have to use Windows every once in a while I am viscerally disgusted by the lack of wobbly windows. Moving windows just feels wrong - very, very wrong. Takes a second to realize they're not wobbling. To me it makes the computer seem less robotic and more natural in a way, I guess. Like haptic feedback on smartphones when you tap stuff.

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Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by O_H_E on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:33PM (#22745032)

Exactly what I told my sister few months ago. The windows just feel stiff and unnatural.

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Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by rossy on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:37PM (#22744026)

I don't know about you, but I've been running wobbly windows up until about a month ago, when I disabled KWin's compositor in favour of picom for performance reasons. I hope to get them back when I'm able to start using KWin on Wayland.

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Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by O_H_E on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:31PM (#22745024)

I still use both on KDE Plasma desktop. Life is great.

Many other options like fire-on-window-close and zooming are also available.

I believe you could get them just using kwin the window manager.

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Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by Nullabillity on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:46PM (#22750721)

FWIW, if you don't see them as options: make sure that the KWin compositor is set to OpenGL mode, rather than XRender.

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Re:Vim rendered on a cube for no reason by thinkling on Sunday April 05, 2020 @09:38PM (#22790226)

I'm very late to this discussion, but... in 1999 we did this at Microsoft running unmodified Windows apps in a custom 3D environment.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-tas...

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