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Komposé provides a fullscreen view of all your tasks and/or virtual desktops where every window is represented by a scaled screenshot of it's own.

0.5 now features support for the Composite and Damage extensions (disabled by default, enable it in the preferences), however with the current state of graphics drivers XOrg may be awfully slow (or even crash sometimes) when enabling the Composite extension.
So blame me for your bad gfx drivers :)
Last changelog:

15 years ago

0.5.3
- well, 0.5.2 didn't show plain and tiled backgrounds right... here we go
- updated author's email addy

0.5.2
- Nicer layouting (less grid-like)
- ADD: Icons for different views (thanks to Bill Kendrick)
- FIX: no more debug out if compiled normally (qDebug() to kdDebug())
- some code cleanups
- Remove flicker on desktop widget mouseover
- Added the ability to show the currently activated Desktop number on the systray icon (thanks to Debajyoti Bera)
- get rid of KRootPixmap
- Autoactivate when mouse moves on to the screen edge

0.5.1
-Hot corners delay controls whether Kompos�is started and not when it's started :)
-imlib2 error message added to configure script
-Fixed "if a kompose window (prefs, about) is open, you are stuck"
-Added german translation (thanks to Thomas Fischer)

0.5:
-Composite support to take screenshots without raising windows
-Damage support for live-updates of windows
-major refactoring for a cleaner design
-new View Type (current desktop)
-activate when mouse moves in one of the screen's corners
-added popup menu for windows
-added a small screenshot delay for passive screenshots. This should make switching between tasks seem more responsive (redraws occur before taking screenshots) and help on most of the "overlapping windows" problems
-fixed flashing background when activating Kompos�
-Switched to themable KDE cursors
-Window title changes are now updated properly
-Correct handling of windows that are on all desktops
-additionally using hjkl(vi) keys for moving and c/m keys for close/minimize/restore
-Imlib2, Composite and Damage autodetected through configure
-some minor bugs and various smaller performance improvements

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meyerm

16 years ago

Hi,

got good news for you. I just set up a whole new systems. This time using xorg and not xfree. And see - kompose is much faster. :-)

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oshogg

16 years ago

What version of xorg release did you use?

I just upgraded to 6.8 and I wonder if kompose can take advantage of the "off screen buffer" in 6.8?

Osho

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meyerm

16 years ago

Ahh! ;-)

Now my xorg-6.7 lasted only for 3 days... Ok, I will update *g*

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meyerm

16 years ago

Hi,

I really like your app. Do you know skippy (http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php)? It's very similar. But I can't get it to work with many dekstops like kompose. So I would prefer kompose. But it is much faster than kompose - at least after the first screenshot. The first time opening the kompose window it is awful slow, afterwards it's still not really usable for everyday usage but much better. Skippy feels much, hmm - smoother(?).

Will this waiting all "disappear" with XCompose? Is it then possible to see the "live" output of window (not needed, just curious)?

Thank you - I'm _really_ looking forward for this app maturing :-)

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oisch

16 years ago

Well I may have answered the 100th performance question today, so I should really write a FAQ.

When it comes to drawing operations, scaling and screenshot taking I believe that Kompos

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manor

16 years ago

I use it the whole time now and hope you keep on working on it.

Kompose is very useful.I had to spend a lot of time to find my spread programs all over the virtual desktops before kompose.

Speed (v.0.4.2) is so good now that it is usable.

Thanks a lot !

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g1gsw

16 years ago

I really like this it is excellent.

Keep up the good work

Colin

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Linuxglider

16 years ago

sr/include/kdatastream.h: At top level:
/usr/include/kapplication.h:177: warning: `void addCmdLineOptions()' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:360: warning: `DCOPClient* dcopClient()' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:366: warning: `void disableAutoDcopRegistration()' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:617: warning: `int startServiceByName(...)' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:663: warning: `int startServiceByDesktopPath(...)' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:709: warning: `int startServiceByDesktopName(...)' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:734: warning: `int kdeinitExec(...)' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:757: warning: `int kdeinitExecWait(...)' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:861: warning: `int random()' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:1155: warning: `void startKdeinit()' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:1186: warning: `void installSigpipeHandler()' declared `static' but never defined
configure with prefix=/usr runs perfect here but make breakes with this:

/usr/include/kapplication.h:1194: warning: `bool guiEnabled()' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kapplication.h:1317: warning: `void sigpipeHandler(int)' declared `static' but never defined
/usr/include/kurl.h:916: warning: `bool isRelativeURL(...)' declared `static' but never defined
make[2]: *** [main.o] Fehler 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/olaf/Desktop/kompose-0.4.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/olaf/Desktop/kompose-0.4.1'

can someone help??

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wwwonka

16 years ago

Empty Desktops fresh
by Yaba on: 08/23/2004, 2:33
Surely some people may like it to have unused desktops smaller.

In my opinion it's confusing to have a different desktop layout depending on the current usage.

Would be great, if you could make this configurable, so that I can switch back to the previous view with lots of wasted space ;-)To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it.
- Scott Granneman, Security Focus
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- . Re: Empty Desktops fresh
by wwwonka on: 08/23/2004, 10:33
Agree completely with above. I liked having my view as 4 distinct desktops, wether empty or not...alot less confusing. Can't please everybody all the time time I suppose.

As for the reliance on systray and the non daemon feature here are my suggestions: Allow kompose to start as a daemon(invisible - no systray) and to be called by another switch. Running with --singleshot and no daemon seems real slow. Ideally I would like to have kompose running in the background and called with an icon of my choice in my panel.

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oisch

16 years ago

For the daemon stuff:
You can do that. run kompos

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gryphonlord2001

16 years ago

for some reason, while kompose works great normally, running under the fd.o xserver mozilla firefox and thunderbird are drawn as black rectangles... but otherwise kompose seems speeded up!

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gryphonlord2001

16 years ago

I don't knoww how, and I doubt this has been integrated, but running a server with the Damage Composite and Xfixes extensions and the xcompmgr seems to improve Kompose's performance ;) i wonder what would happen if it were explicitly meant to use those extensions (which are apparently going to be part of the next X.org release)...

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psykotux

16 years ago

Hi,

You can watch to "uncover" apps from xapps. It works like kompose. Light, Powerfull, Real time, work perfectly on 700Mhz ;-) But it only works with DAMAGE/COMPOSITE/XFIXES ;-(. You can use it with Xserver. Now "uncover" works to see in thnumbmail all apps and the apps together. Don't scale the thunbmail and mask the apps and you have your Kompos

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somekool

16 years ago

// creating new thread

about your idea to not have a systray icon, that is pretty good. allowing people to create their own button, or to just use the hotkey.

even if dcop calls are great and should be available, maybe the icon should just link to a script. That script would just check if the app is running, if so, it just use the dcop call, if not, it runs it first.

however the prefereences are set, with or without systray icon


so the hotkey would need to be a global KDE hotkey installed with kompose instead of a regular app hotkey

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oisch

16 years ago

Sounds good. This will be the way I'll implement it in 0.4

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Ekardnam

16 years ago

somekool: I think it would be hard to use the applet in kompose, it's only a screenshot(?)
I don't know if this works, but when I tried yo close all windows in kompose:
1. Kompose crashed when I got a popup message (Kopete is still running in system tray)
2. A empty kompose.
If there are no windows, then just quit kompose?

Oh, and: Thanks for a wonderful applet! (I was surprised that it didn't lag on my computer ^^)

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nuka

16 years ago

for kde? its pretty cool. ill download it and check it out.

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somekool

16 years ago

i dont know if you've take a look at the new dashboard for mac os X 10.4, but i was wondering if maybe kompose could allow to control apps on their thumbnail version.
like, completly acting with them, clicking on the menu and stuff.

if you have a kcalc running, and you click on kompose, you'll see its big enough for you to play with it.

would be cool if maybe the user would press CTRL and could click and on the application itself without quitting kompose.

maybe the application would zoom in, then you can interact with it. then when you release the key, it goes back to the normal kompose view.

also, when you look at the current expose in 10.3, windows are shrinking just enough to show them all. kompose actually does that too, in a single virtual desktop, unused virtual desktop are just blank square. thats not as good.

and xinerama.... really important.
more and more computer comes with dual video card.

great work there, i just replace any kind of taskmanager I had by yours.

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oisch

16 years ago

I have already thought about the same thing. Bringing an app to front in kompos

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somekool

16 years ago

basicaly, with two screens, kompose appear on the same screen as the kicker bar is, or where the systray applet is I guess.

and you can still use the other screen while expose is open.

windows are of course together (no screen distinction) and hmm,...

i dont know,... i think kdelibs have some more work to do on the xinerama side, to make your life easier.

and dont think kwin is aware at all of which screen a window is. part using his position (x-w >= 0)?

anyway.... when 0.4 due for ? :)

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somekool

16 years ago

- option to not show empty virtual desktop

- dragging capability between virtual desktop

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somekool

16 years ago

sorry for the stupid comments, i should have tried before....

dragging is working nicely

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oisch

16 years ago

"option to not show empty virtual desktop"
I've implemented this yesterdays. empty virtual desks are now shown "minimized" quite cool stuff ;)

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somekool

16 years ago

nice nice nice nice nice !!!!
- /me waiting for 0.4 ;)

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somekool

16 years ago

that thing is great.
however, a different behaviour should happen on a twinhead desktop.

maybe some work would be needed on kwin's end though. i don't know if kwin is aware of the window position (which screen)

thanks

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15 years ago

0.5.3
- well, 0.5.2 didn't show plain and tiled backgrounds right... here we go
- updated author's email addy

0.5.2
- Nicer layouting (less grid-like)
- ADD: Icons for different views (thanks to Bill Kendrick)
- FIX: no more debug out if compiled normally (qDebug() to kdDebug())
- some code cleanups
- Remove flicker on desktop widget mouseover
- Added the ability to show the currently activated Desktop number on the systray icon (thanks to Debajyoti Bera)
- get rid of KRootPixmap
- Autoactivate when mouse moves on to the screen edge

0.5.1
-Hot corners delay controls whether Kompos�is started and not when it's started :)
-imlib2 error message added to configure script
-Fixed "if a kompose window (prefs, about) is open, you are stuck"
-Added german translation (thanks to Thomas Fischer)

0.5:
-Composite support to take screenshots without raising windows
-Damage support for live-updates of windows
-major refactoring for a cleaner design
-new View Type (current desktop)
-activate when mouse moves in one of the screen's corners
-added popup menu for windows
-added a small screenshot delay for passive screenshots. This should make switching between tasks seem more responsive (redraws occur before taking screenshots) and help on most of the "overlapping windows" problems
-fixed flashing background when activating Kompos�
-Switched to themable KDE cursors
-Window title changes are now updated properly
-Correct handling of windows that are on all desktops
-additionally using hjkl(vi) keys for moving and c/m keys for close/minimize/restore
-Imlib2, Composite and Damage autodetected through configure
-some minor bugs and various smaller performance improvements

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