<s>
Compiz	B-Language
(	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
compositing	B-Operating_System
window	I-Operating_System
manager	I-Operating_System
for	O
the	O
X	B-Operating_System
Window	I-Operating_System
System	I-Operating_System
,	O
using	O
3D	O
graphics	O
hardware	O
to	O
create	O
fast	O
compositing	B-Operating_System
desktop	O
effects	O
for	O
window	O
management	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Because	O
it	O
conforms	O
to	O
the	O
ICCCM	B-Operating_System
conventions	O
,	O
Compiz	B-Language
can	O
be	O
used	O
as	O
a	O
substitute	O
for	O
the	O
default	O
Mutter	B-Language
or	O
Metacity	B-Language
,	O
when	O
using	O
GNOME	B-Language
Panel	I-Language
,	O
or	O
KWin	B-Language
in	O
KDE	B-Language
Plasma	I-Language
Workspaces	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Internally	O
Compiz	B-Language
uses	O
the	O
OpenGL	B-Application
library	O
as	O
the	O
interface	O
to	O
the	O
graphics	O
hardware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Initially	O
,	O
Compiz	B-Language
only	O
worked	O
with	O
3D	O
hardware	O
supported	O
by	O
Xgl	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
NVIDIA	O
and	O
ATI	O
graphics	O
cards	O
are	O
known	O
to	O
work	O
with	O
Compiz	B-Language
on	O
Xgl	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
May	O
22	O
,	O
2006	O
Compiz	B-Language
works	O
on	O
the	O
standard	O
X.Org	B-Operating_System
Server	I-Operating_System
,	O
by	O
using	O
AIGLX	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Besides	O
Intel	B-Device
GMA	I-Device
graphics	O
cards	O
,	O
AIGLX	B-Application
also	O
supports	O
using	O
AMD	O
graphics	O
cards	O
(	O
including	O
R300	B-Device
and	O
newer	O
cards	O
)	O
using	O
the	O
open-source	O
driver	O
which	O
supports	O
since	O
fall	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NVIDIA	O
's	O
binary	O
drivers	O
(	O
since	O
Version	O
1.0-9629	O
)	O
support	O
on	O
standard	O
X.Org	B-Operating_System
server	I-Operating_System
;	O
ATI/AMD	O
'	O
s	O
binary	O
drivers	O
do	O
since	O
version	O
8.42	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
the	O
early	O
2000	O
's	O
,	O
both	O
ATI	O
and	O
Nvidia	O
drivers	O
became	O
increasingly	O
common	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Advanced	O
OpenGL	B-Application
development	O
was	O
no	O
longer	O
restricted	O
to	O
expensive	O
UNIX	B-Device
workstations	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Around	O
the	O
same	O
time	O
,	O
Xgl	B-Application
,	O
Xegl	B-Application
and	O
AIGLX	B-Application
gave	O
Xorg	B-Operating_System
the	O
possibility	O
of	O
using	O
OpenGL	B-Application
for	O
transformation	O
and	O
effects	O
on	O
windows	O
surfaces	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
foundations	O
finally	O
available	O
,	O
xcompmgr	O
pioneered	O
the	O
features	O
of	O
a	O
compositing	B-Operating_System
window	I-Operating_System
manager	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
effort	O
called	O
Luminocity	O
began	O
with	O
some	O
GNOME	B-Application
developers	O
to	O
make	O
use	O
of	O
recent	O
developments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2005	O
,	O
the	O
Luminocity	O
project	O
already	O
featured	O
effects	O
like	O
"	O
wobbly	O
windows	O
"	O
,	O
"	O
physics	O
models	O
for	O
window	O
moving	O
"	O
,	O
"	O
live	O
updating	O
workspace	O
switcher	O
"	O
and	O
"	O
alpha	O
compositing	B-Operating_System
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Given	O
Luminocity	O
was	O
mostly	O
a	O
prototype	O
,	O
its	O
development	O
soon	O
was	O
abandoned	O
,	O
but	O
some	O
of	O
its	O
effects	O
and	O
behaviors	O
were	O
later	O
implemented	O
by	O
Compiz	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
Compiz	B-Language
was	O
released	O
as	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
by	O
Novell	O
(	O
SUSE	O
)	O
no	O
later	O
than	O
February	O
2006	O
in	O
the	O
wake	O
of	O
the	O
(	O
also	O
new	O
)	O
Xgl	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
earliest	O
compositing	B-Operating_System
window	I-Operating_System
managers	I-Operating_System
for	O
X	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2006	O
Compiz	B-Language
was	O
ported	O
to	O
AIGLX	B-Application
by	O
Red	O
Hat	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Beryl	B-Language
was	O
the	O
project	O
name	O
for	O
the	O
quinnstorm	O
branch	O
of	O
Compiz	B-Language
,	O
announced	O
on	O
September	O
19	O
,	O
2006	O
after	O
Compiz	B-Language
developer	O
Quinn	O
Storm	O
and	O
the	O
development	O
team	O
decided	O
that	O
the	O
fork	O
had	O
come	O
too	O
far	O
from	O
the	O
original	O
Compiz	B-Language
started	O
by	O
Novell	O
(	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
the	O
Novell	O
XGL/Compiz	O
team	O
(	O
mostly	O
David	B-Language
Reveman	I-Language
)	O
refused	O
the	O
proposition	O
to	O
merge	O
the	O
Quinnstorm	O
changes	O
with	O
compiz-vanilla	O
,	O
the	O
decision	O
was	O
made	O
to	O
make	O
a	O
real	O
differentiation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Among	O
the	O
differences	O
to	O
Compiz	B-Language
,	O
Beryl	B-Language
had	O
a	O
new	O
window	O
decorator	O
named	O
Emerald	O
based	O
on	O
cgwd	O
along	O
with	O
a	O
theme	O
manager	O
called	O
,	O
used	O
a	O
flat	O
file	O
backend	O
instead	O
of	O
gconf	B-Language
,	O
and	O
had	O
no	O
GNOME	B-Application
dependencies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
March	O
30	O
,	O
2007	O
,	O
discussions	O
between	O
the	O
Beryl	B-Language
and	O
Compiz	B-Language
communities	O
led	O
to	O
a	O
merger	O
of	O
the	O
two	O
communities	O
which	O
results	O
in	O
two	O
new	O
software	O
packages	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Compiz	B-Language
Fusion	I-Language
,	O
consisting	O
of	O
the	O
plugins	O
,	O
decorators	O
,	O
settings	O
tools	O
and	O
related	O
applications	O
from	O
the	O
Beryl	B-Language
and	O
Compiz	B-Language
communities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compiz	B-Language
Fusion	I-Language
concentrates	O
on	O
installation	O
,	O
configuration	O
and	O
additional	O
plugins	O
to	O
add	O
to	O
the	O
core	O
functionalities	O
of	O
Compiz	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
fourth	O
quarter	O
of	O
2008	O
,	O
two	O
separate	O
branches	O
of	O
Compiz	B-Language
were	O
created	O
:	O
compiz++	O
and	O
NOMAD	O
;	O
compiz++	O
was	O
geared	O
toward	O
the	O
separation	O
of	O
compositing	B-Operating_System
and	O
OpenGL	B-Application
layers	O
for	O
the	O
rendering	O
of	O
the	O
window	O
manager	O
without	O
compositing	B-Operating_System
effects	I-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
the	O
port	O
from	O
C	B-Language
to	O
C++	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
NOMAD	O
was	O
geared	O
towards	O
the	O
improvement	O
of	O
remote	B-Protocol
desktop	I-Protocol
performance	O
for	O
Compiz	B-Language
installations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
February	O
2	O
,	O
2009	O
a	O
conference	O
call	O
was	O
held	O
between	O
developers	O
of	O
Compiz	B-Language
,	O
Compiz++	O
,	O
NOMAD	O
and	O
Compiz	B-Language
Fusion	I-Language
where	O
it	O
was	O
decided	O
to	O
merge	O
the	O
projects	O
into	O
a	O
unified	O
project	O
,	O
simply	O
named	O
Compiz	B-Language
,	O
with	O
a	O
unified	O
roadmap	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
July	O
4	O
,	O
2010	O
,	O
Sam	O
Spilsbury	O
,	O
lead	O
Compiz	B-Language
developer	O
,	O
announced	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
Compiz	B-Language
0.9.0	O
with	O
a	O
new	O
API	O
,	O
rewritten	O
in	O
C++	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Canonical	O
Ltd	O
.	O
hired	O
Spilsbury	O
to	O
further	O
develop	O
Compiz	B-Language
for	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
in	O
October	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
then	O
Compiz	B-Language
development	O
mostly	O
coincides	O
with	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Main	O
development	O
moved	O
to	O
Canonical	O
's	O
Launchpad	B-Protocol
service	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
0.9.x	O
versions	O
up	O
to	O
0.9.5	O
were	O
seen	O
as	O
unstable/beta	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
version	O
0.9.6	O
in	O
progress	O
,	O
Canonical	O
hired	O
developer	O
Daniel	O
van	O
Vugt	O
to	O
work	O
on	O
Compiz	B-Language
full-time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
0.9.6	O
never	O
officially	O
released	O
,	O
Compiz	B-Language
0.9.7.0	O
was	O
released	O
a	O
month	O
ahead	O
of	O
enterprise-targeted	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
12.04	O
LTS	O
(	O
Long	O
Term	O
Support	O
)	O
and	O
declared	O
stable	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
few	O
days	O
before	O
the	O
official	O
release	O
of	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
12.04	O
a	O
new	O
development	O
branch	O
,	O
0.9.8	O
,	O
was	O
created	O
in	O
preparation	O
for	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
12.10	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
Compiz	B-Language
version	O
0.9.8	O
development	O
has	O
moved	O
to	O
a	O
new	O
Launchpad	B-Protocol
page	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2012	O
,	O
Spilsbury	O
announced	O
that	O
he	O
had	O
left	O
Canonical	O
and	O
stated	O
he	O
had	O
no	O
plans	O
to	O
port	O
Compiz	B-Language
to	O
Wayland	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
small	O
team	O
continues	O
to	O
work	O
on	O
Compiz	B-Language
with	O
version	O
0.9.13	O
being	O
the	O
focus	O
of	O
development	O
as	O
of	O
July	O
2016	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
group	O
forked	O
the	O
Compiz	B-Language
0.8	O
series	O
code	O
base	O
and	O
modernized	O
it	O
and	O
maintains	O
it	O
as	O
of	O
2019	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Almost	O
all	O
available	O
Compiz	B-Language
features	O
–	O
except	O
translucency	O
,	O
dimming	O
,	O
and	O
desaturation	O
–	O
are	O
delivered	O
using	O
plugins	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compiz	B-Language
plugins	O
include	O
the	O
cube	O
effect	O
,	O
Alt-Tab	O
application-switching	O
with	O
live	O
previews	O
or	O
icons	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
feature	O
similar	O
to	O
macOS	B-Application
's	O
Mission	O
Control	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Composite	B-Device
extension	I-Device
to	O
X	B-Operating_System
is	O
used	O
,	O
as	O
is	O
the	O
OpenGL	B-Application
extension	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Compiz	B-Language
project	O
categorizes	O
the	O
plugins	O
into	O
four	O
main	O
groups	O
:	O
Main	O
,	O
Extra	O
,	O
Unsupported	O
,	O
and	O
Experimental	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unlike	O
many	O
window	O
managers	O
which	O
have	O
only	O
one	O
window	O
decorator	O
,	O
Compiz	B-Language
users	O
have	O
a	O
choice	O
of	O
three	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
gtk-window-decorator	O
uses	O
either	O
a	O
basic	O
cairo-based	O
rendering	O
engine	O
or	O
can	O
use	O
Metacity	B-Language
themes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
kde-window-decorator	O
uses	O
native	O
KWin	B-Language
themes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Emerald	O
,	O
a	O
custom	O
decorator	O
with	O
its	O
own	O
theme	O
format	O
that	O
has	O
been	O
ported	O
to	O
Compiz	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
used	O
to	O
be	O
Beryl	B-Language
's	O
default	O
decorator	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compiz	B-Language
or	O
Beryl	B-Language
have	O
usually	O
been	O
deployed	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
and	O
other	O
X11-based	O
Unix-like	B-Operating_System
platforms	O
together	O
with	O
GNOME	B-Application
2	O
and	O
KDE	B-Language
3	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
version	O
4.2	O
,	O
however	O
,	O
KDE	B-Application
's	O
own	O
KWin	B-Language
ships	O
with	O
capabilities	O
similar	O
to	O
Compiz	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
such	O
,	O
Compiz	B-Language
is	O
not	O
usually	O
deployed	O
with	O
recent	O
Plasma	B-Language
Workspaces	I-Language
versions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GNOME	B-Application
version	O
3.0	O
uses	O
GNOME	B-Language
Shell	I-Language
which	O
is	O
built	O
as	O
a	O
plugin	O
to	O
the	O
Mutter	B-Language
compositing	B-Operating_System
window	I-Operating_System
manager	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
means	O
Compiz	B-Language
cannot	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
conjunction	O
with	O
GNOME	B-Language
Shell	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Citing	O
a	O
lack	O
of	O
maintenance	O
on	O
the	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Compiz	B-Language
developers	O
,	O
Fedora	O
removed	O
Compiz	B-Language
from	O
the	O
Fedora	O
repositories	O
from	O
Fedora	O
17	O
however	O
Compiz	B-Language
has	O
been	O
reinstated	O
in	O
the	O
Fedora	O
repositories	O
since	O
Fedora	O
18	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
official	O
MATE	B-Language
spin	O
which	O
includes	O
Compiz	B-Language
has	O
been	O
available	O
since	O
Fedora	O
19	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compiz	B-Language
was	O
dropped	O
from	O
the	O
Debian	O
repositories	O
from	O
Debian	O
7	O
(	O
Wheezy	O
)	O
onwards	O
in	O
August	O
2013	O
due	O
to	O
broken	O
packages	O
and	O
a	O
lack	O
of	O
upstream	O
development	O
on	O
the	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Compiz	B-Language
developers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compiz	B-Language
was	O
reintroduced	O
into	O
Debian	O
in	O
December	O
2016	O
by	O
the	O
Hypra.fr	O
Team	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compiz	B-Language
was	O
dropped	O
from	O
the	O
Arch	O
Linux	B-Application
repositories	O
in	O
May	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compiz	B-Language
can	O
still	O
be	O
installed	O
from	O
packages	O
available	O
in	O
the	O
Arch	O
User	O
Repository	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
6.06	O
LTS	O
and	O
later	O
included	O
Compiz	B-Language
in	O
the	O
universe	O
repository	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
limited	O
version	O
was	O
included	O
by	O
default	O
as	O
"	O
Desktop	O
Effects	O
"	O
in	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
7.04	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
7.10	O
onwards	O
,	O
Compiz	B-Language
was	O
enabled	O
by	O
default	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2010	O
Canonical	O
released	O
their	O
Unity	B-Device
interface	I-Device
which	O
is	O
written	O
as	O
a	O
plugin	O
for	O
Compiz	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Early	O
compiz	B-Language
reviews	O
were	O
mostly	O
favorable	O
praising	O
its	O
performance	O
,	O
beauty	O
and	O
novelty	O
value	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
included	O
in	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
6.06	O
repositories	O
to	O
allow	O
easy	O
installation	O
and	O
was	O
,	O
as	O
of	O
2021	O
,	O
the	O
only	O
time	O
an	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
release	O
was	O
postponed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
projects	O
like	O
Metisse	B-Device
and	O
Project	B-Language
Looking	I-Language
Glass	I-Language
were	O
developed	O
around	O
the	O
same	O
time	O
,	O
but	O
none	O
became	O
as	O
known	O
or	O
widely	O
deployed	O
as	O
Compiz	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
window	O
managers	O
like	O
GNOME	B-Language
Shell	I-Language
and	O
KWin	B-Language
would	O
later	O
also	O
implement	O
compositing	B-Operating_System
effects	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
development	O
of	O
Wayland	B-Language
around	O
2010	O
merged	O
the	O
functions	O
of	O
compositor	O
and	O
graphics	O
server	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
program	O
,	O
a	O
move	O
that	O
would	O
eventually	O
obsolete	O
separate	O
window	O
managers	O
and	O
compositors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
,	O
distributions	O
increasingly	O
began	O
including	O
KDE	B-Application
and	O
GNOME	B-Application
with	O
their	O
default	O
window	O
managers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
last	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
version	O
to	O
include	O
Compiz	B-Language
to	O
implement	O
its	O
Unity	B-Device
desktop	I-Device
manager	O
was	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
16.04	O
.	O
</s>
