Here is another video that shows the potential of architecture XGL on Linux using a touch screen. Very nice effect "elastic" that can be achieved by dragging a window border and then leave abruptly.
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Definitions associated with the video taken from Wikipedia :
XGL, which stands for X over OpenGL, X Window System is an architecture designed to take advantage of modern graphics cards via their OpenGL drivers, and is developed based on OpenGL using glitz. It supports hardware acceleration of all X, OpenGL and XVideo applications and graphical effects by a compositing window manager like Compiz or Beryl. The project was initiated by an employee of Novell David Reveman and first issued on January 2, 2006.
Some demo [1], Novell shows examples with transparency applied to application windows, ability to miniaturize the flight playing a video without losing frames and three-dimensional graphical interface shaped like a prism that allows you to keep an eye on from 4 to 25 desktops.
X Window System, known in slang as X11 or more simply X, is the de facto standard graphics manager for all Unix systems (including Linux and BSD), is maintained by the X. Org Foundation and released under a license Free software.
least marginally supported by some of the largest producers of graphics hardware is now used secondarily to other operating systems (eg Mac OS X, which uses native Quartz) to allow operation of software designed for this graphics system, such as Gimp and OpenOffice office suite.
X environment provides the basic components for graphical interfaces, or drawing and moving windows on the screen and interact with the mouse and keyboard. X does not handle but the graphical user interface or the graphical style of applications: all these aspects are directly managed by each application.
Another important feature is the network transparency: the machine where running programs (clients) do not have to be the local machine (the display server). The terms "server" and "client" are often confused: for X server is the user's local display, not a remote machine. This also allows you to view on the same display applications that run on different hosts, or on a host that are run applications with graphical user interface display on different ends.
X was born in 1984 at MIT. The current vesion of the Protocol, X11, was completed in September 1987. Currently, the X. Org Foundation implements the X protocol version 11 in xorg and the latest version available is 7.1.
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