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Thread ID: 47456 2004-07-27 03:08:00 Who else has tried out Project Looking-Glass (lg3d)? Chilling_Silence (9) Press F1
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255645 2004-07-27 03:08:00 Seeing as its been released to the public, I figured why not give it a whirl :-)

Installed in on my laptop (Gentoo 2004.1 kernel-2.6.8-rc2-love2) (512MB Ram and 16MB shared SiS 650 Onboard VGA, 2.8Ghz P4) by emerging all the related apps. I manually downloaded the files, as some had download locks on them (This would be Gentoo-related only).

Grabbed the ebuild for lookingglass-0.5 and setup went without a hitch.

I opened a console and ran:
/opt/lg3d/lg3d-dev
and was greeted with:
sal.neoburn.net

Not bad eh :-)

Sadly I couldnt get it to run in a Full-screen, it tried to use some sort of different X config... It just didnt like me. It would try and run it at 800x600, and my keyboard/mouse would freeze forcing me to ssh into my laptop and reboot it like that :-(

Played a little with moving apps etc, but not much because it uses the native WindowManager (Enlightenment in my case) when run in a window.

Has anybody else used it? Thoughts?

If you've not heard of it, you can check out a small video here:
wwws.sun.com

I highly recommend the larger quicktime download - well worth it :-)

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
255646 2004-07-27 03:52:00 My apologies for the URL - Doesnt seem to like me ?:|

Hopefully this one does:
sal.neoburn.net
Chilling_Silence (9)
255647 2004-07-27 08:54:00 The Project Looking Glass looks really neat. There are some good screenshots available here (wwws.sun.com). Might have to try this Looking Glass desktop myself out. :) Jen C (20)
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