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First of all: hey Planet GNOME! It's an honour to be listed between all those hackers whose work I use every day again.

Like lots of other people (I think) I tried to get XGL + compiz working on my desktop today. XGL was a breeze (worked yesterday too), I did have some issues with compiz (mesa-issues, to be more precise). It doesn't work yet, but I hope I'll be able to sort out all remaining issues tomorrow or this week-end (although I'm no low-level X/OpenGL guru)... The whole problem could be related to some function/constant/enum renaming sutff.

The issue I got is this: I can start XGL/compiz and X apps, but the XWindows are empty black or white rectangles on the screen... The issue is (I think) related to some OpenGL extension call not working inside compiz:

Couldn't bind redirected window 0xdeadbeef to texture
pixmap 0x12345 can't be bound to texture

Oh well, even with empty windows, the result is fairly amazing. I tried to make a little amateur video of what I got now ("scrot" refuses to work?). I'm sorry for the bad angle, I only got 2 hands ;) Get it here (18MB).
There's a little problem with the wobbly effect too, which leaves "traces" on the desktop (image).

Anyway, after working on Metacity's compositing some weeks ago, and now seeing this beauty, I think we should prepare for some more great progress regarding our beloved (hmm) graphics subsystems.