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Yes! I finally got compiz working on my dog slow integrated Intell 855 graphics chip on my laptop.

It doesn’t run brilliantly fast, but it does run, and now I have wobbly windows,  3d cube desktop and real transparency and whole bunch of toher cool looking effects.

I also reported my first real bug with Ubuntu linux.  The version of SDL that ships with ubuntu dapper doesn’t have a bug fix so any 32bit windows are transparent when  using compiz.  That includes anything using pyGame, which my game does, so it made it very hard to see what was going on.  Manaully installing latest version of SDL from website fixes it temporarily, and I’ve passed on the patch upstream, so there might even be updated versions of libSDL coming down sometime soon.

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