[nflug] OSX Like Desktop Switcher

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Josh Johnson wrote:

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>From: "Joshua Ronne Altemoos" <joshua at wolfnix.net>
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Re: [nflug] OSX Like Desktop Switcher
>Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:07:10 -0500 (EST)
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>>This app looks very cool but also very resource intensive.
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>Its not really, so long as you have opengl working. Just like Frank, I only use it for showing off. But for day-to-day use I don't keep it on. Its been a while (and I'm away from my home computer) but if I remember correctly it used somewhere around 5-7% CPU on my P3. Even that is more than I'm willing to expend for every day use. That's why I got away from Windows. But such is the price of neatness.
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>http://desk3d.sourceforge.net
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>>>Mark T. Valites wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Frank Kumro wrote:
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>>>>>Does anyone know of a linux app that does the cool transition effect
>>>>>between desktops like OSX has?
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>>>>3ddesktop
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>>>Want to second what Mark so accurately but tersely said.  What you are
>>>looking for is indeed 3DDesk.  On my cutting-edge SMP system all I do is
>>>press alt-3 in Fluxbox (an action set in the ~/.fluxbox/keys file) and
>>>the screen immediately recedes into the background and assumes its
>>>position as the current face on the cube, arrow keys whirl the cube
>>>clockwise or counter-clockwise, and enter brings the present face back
>>>to the foreground.
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>>>All very cool, but I only use it when I'm trying to kill someone with
>>>the elegance, efficiency, and productivity of GNU/Linux and Fluxbox.
>>>What can be faster than alt-F1-F4?
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>>>Frank
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Thanks guys, this is too freakin cool! I went to sourceforge and they 
had an rpm for FC4 that was like 82k! Downloaded and installed in Gnome, 
works beautifully!
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