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BeFaded serves the same purpose as "slide back", but is less animated.The stacked behind windows fade out in front of and in behind the new top window, takes ~300ms.What is new in this release:Serious BUGFIX for 0.4 - fixes kwin segfaults when closing an...

Popups shade, the rest fades.BeDropped also provides hackish attempt to animate window shading.Notes:- Shading is done by scaling. No prob on OpenGL, but you need good scaling support on XRender (for nvidia try -a "InitialPixmapPlacement=2", makes pixmap...

Since the Oxygen decoration paints it's own shadows, the shadow plugin got pretty step-childed.a) it's horribly imperformant (if I play a video it's causing ~2/3 of the kwin cpu load...)b) it's broken with XRender & translucencyc) it could use some more...

KDE SC 4.5 will bring back blurring, but for OpenGL only.Developer commentsPlasma doesn't use this effect and I don't recommend to use it for "normal" windows (in combination with Bespin or ?QtCurve?)Since XRender doesn't know accelerated pixel...

BeClock is a simple clock, implemented as KWin Effect.- This is NO plasmoid!- You need active desktop FX to use this clock- The idea is somewhat experimentalInstallation:tar -xjf beclock-kwin-fx.x.y.tbzcd beclock-kwin-fxmkdir buildcd buildcmake...

Kontainer is an open source, rudimentary and nested window manager software , tiling clients horizontally, vertically or providing a row/column oriented grid.Kontainer is not a full window manager, is more like a workaround to the KWin package from the...

QNetCtl is an open source graphical application written in Qt and designed as a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for the netctl, ip and iw command-line utilities found in the Arch Linux operating system.QNetCtl is designed as a front-end for netctl,...