XGL/Compiz plugin called Lowfat

[darkhatter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkrM4ymkiDo

just watch the video

:popcorn:

UPDATE: I was reading digg some more and I just found out it wasn't compiz or xgl, so if you have a 3d card you should be able to use this

[Chelives1928]

I seen the article on digg as well. Do you have any idea how to install it so that I can give it a test drive. I'm not very familiar with linux yet but I'm interested in this lowfat because the video looks awesome.

[darkhatter]

http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=18

I believe thats his web site, I think you have to compile it :(

[prizrak]

That's kind cool.
Darkhatter,
Come on it's not THAT scary ;)

[pt123]

so no chance of a .deb file?

[floke]

Lowfat is out????
Have to go check this out....

[plb]

That video is from september and if lowfat was out I'm sure macslow would release a deb afaik he uses ubuntu

[floke]

...apparently not :(

the README says this:

lowfat is far from done. So do not package it or something similar. It would imply to end-users that it is a "finished product", which it is not yet... by far not.
So for the sake of lowfat's reputation, please do not package it yet. It's only for developers atm.

[Oen386]

I found directions for how to install (below). When I run it though I get stuck (either at configure or make). I will have to give the error output when I get home.

http://forum.beryl-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=4296&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=13d440e88c9619fb15032df641936a25&start=10



I GOT IT!!
I have lowfat and it is indeed awesome!
Here is how to get it! Install gitweb and then do a:
git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~macslow/lowfat
A folder called lowfat will be created in your homefolder containing all needed files to compile it.
Open a terminal cd to the directory and type: ./autogen.sh then ./configure then make and sudo make install.
After that type lowfat and be happy.
Danke Mirco.

[floke]

Ok - so I get it working - but it doesn't seem able to do very much at the moment...

BTW: It depends on automake autoconf and libtools

[darkhatter]

thanks for the link Oen386

[reacocard]

Ok - so I get it working - but it doesn't seem able to do very much at the moment...

Yeah. If it did anything I'd build a deb, but its not worth the effort. The video says it all, really. Cool-looking, but not useful yet.

[pt123]

Anyone got an update on this?

Because the author gave a talk at FossCamp

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071028-making-linux-application-user-interfaces-richer-with-opengl.html

on his blog he has stated that he is in some sort of partnership with Canonical