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GPU Accelerated Window Manager?

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Okay, I think the title says it all really, are there any window managers that are hardware accelerated by the GPU? Sorta like a linux version of Vista's Avalon system or rather Tiger's Quartz Extreme (since it's openGL based)?
 
e17 is working on a mode like this, but it's not stable yet.

 
They all support it. That is, newer versions of X-windows support this. It doesn't really matter what windows manager you have. The feature is called X-Composite. That said, you probably want the window manager to integrate support for it. KDE (only the newest versions) is the best for this right now IMHO. There are some settings for it in the KDE control center.

If you don't want to use KDE, you can make it work with any window manager (most anyways). Just read up about xcomposite, xcompmgr, and transset (sp?).
 
Composite effects are pretty awesome if your computer can handle it. The code is still somewhat buggy, but it is getting better. I didn't know KDE handled composite stuff. I do believe I will have to try that. I know xfce4 has a composite manager that provides nice little shadows around windows and some shading and stuff. Oh yeah, and you had better have an nvidia video card, because ati's drivers are still shit. They've gotten quite a bit better lately, but I don't think they support composite yet(I believe their official stance is that they are waiting until composite gets a bit more mature before they start supporting it(X-composite is still in its infancy and is not very mature yet)). Nvidia supports it, though. For the most part.
 
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