Whoa...this blew me away. After a little tweaking and a rather lengthy compile I am now running a modular X with Xgl and all I can say is wow! There is a gentoo installation howto here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL If you just want a taster then there is a live CD here: http://kororaa.org/ The project is still in beta and you need a halfway decent graphics card (eg nvidia geforce or ati radeon). I'm running it on a duron 1GHz with a GeForce 4 Ti and it's sweet! If you don't have the hardware to run it then there is a ~60Mb video here: http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi and some shorter ones here: http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/

Hi 3Dave, I think I saw it on Ubuntu sometimes ago or on MAC machine before. Rotating the desktops at your will. However it eats lot of RAM B.R. satimis

Ah yes...but this is now all done on the graphics card and doesn't use up half the resources of something like expocity or skippy. Having true translucent windows etc is nice too. I also like the way they distort when you drag them around. I have played with KDE and composite before but this is way better. It is a lot more like using OSX....but even funkier! The offical 60Mb video from novell was actually made using the desktop. You can map images to the faces of the cube which is how the guy did the presentation. If you've got an nvidia card then give the kororaa live cd a go.

Hi 3Dave, I have Leadtek Winfast 3D graphic card with 32MB Ram on nvidia chip (I supposed). It has been used sometimes. Just checked its manual nothing mentioned about the chip, only instruction on drawing 3D graphic. Anyway I'll download kororaa live cd to have a trial. B.R. satimis

Hi 3Dave, I ran "kororaa-xgl-demo-livecd-0.1" several times, hangin on "initiating kernel" resulted. This incident led me solving the problem of "Starting-KDE problem" on another topic. On booting the CD, typed "memtest". Accidently I found only 256MB RAM available on this PC which should have 512MB. Then I checked the hardware discovering one of the 256MB ram stick not fixed properly on the slot for unknown reason. I fixed it properly. Afterwards my problem on another posting mentioned disappeared. Now what did "initiating kernel" indicate. There was space in the form of a bar under the indication. Whether to type something there? What shall I type? satimis

It shouldn't hang there....try pressing F2 and using some of the boot options.

Hi 3Dave, I think nothing relevant on F2 Turning on verbose mode I discovered it hung on xgl root# Then I typed xgl root# startx .... .... ..... Fatal server error Caught signal 4. Server aborting X10 fatal 10 error 104 (connection reset by peer) or X server ":0,0" after 0 requests (0 known processed with 0 event remaining) It seems X server failed to start. # lspci ..... ... 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) satimis