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http://forums.entropysink.com/index.php?topic=1948.0I've been fiddling around with this for a short while now and it's just great - wobbly windows are wonderful fun and the cubic desktop switching thing is fast and quite a delight.
I read somewhere or other that the latest opensuse (10.1) was simple to configure and, since I've been meaning to take a peek at another distro for a while, I installed it, ati drivers, xgl and compiz. A couple of very minor tweaks later, some super-amazing-eye-candy was mine to play around with; the total time from suse installation to final gnome/xgl configuration took a very short and surprisingly stress free amount of time.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to take any screenshots that don't look horrible but I can say that the scrolling issue mentioned in the previous thread by ygfperson seems to be gone; resizing is still very 'sticky' though. All the other effects are there: fading on minimizing, wobbly windows (even menus have a mesmerising oscillation as they open), the rotating cube multiple desktop etc; I haven't checked out the transparency effect but that's probably because I was never a fan of it on that on win2k/xp; I might yet get round to it. I'm running with a 1280x1024 display so it seems that the display limitation reported previously by ygfperson have been resolved to some extent (I've not tried it on other resolutions).
The configuration utility does list my radeon 9800pro as an 'unsupported' card but, so far, it all seems to working very well (other than resizing).
Verdict: 10/10