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 Screenshot showing the Cube plugin for Compiz on Fedora | |
| Developer(s) | David Reveman, Sam Spilsbury, Danny Baumann, Dennis Kasprzyk, Daniel van Vugt |
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| Initial release | 2006 |
| Stable release | 0.9.14.2[1] 
/ 22 August 2022 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C, C++, Python |
| Operating system | Unix-like with X11 |
| Type | X window manager |
| License | GPL, core: MIT license |
| Website | launchpad |
Compiz (/kɒmpɪz/) is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. Effects, such as a minimization animation or a cube workspace, are implemented as loadable plugins. Because it conforms to the ICCCM conventions, Compiz can be used as a substitute for the default Mutter or Metacity, when using GNOME Panel, or KWin in KDE Plasma Workspaces. Internally Compiz uses the OpenGL library as the interface to the graphics hardware.
- ^ "Compiz 0.9.14.2 released". August 22, 2022. Retrieved August 26, 2022.