An overview of modern fancy UNIX desktop systems

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Author: Thomas Jollans

Thomas Jollans writes “In the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about Xgl, compiz, AIGLX et cetera. It seems that “Xgl” has become a synonym for fancy desktop on Linux – but noone seems to talk about the alternatives or how it all works. I have had a little look into this and am going to summarize it for y’all.”