This features some significant modifications to Compiz that aren't yet fully mature.

Several active contributors began making massive architectural changes to Compiz in their own branches outside of the project.

There are also plans to conduct a complete code review and improve documentation throughout Compiz.

I had the same experience with compiz using up a LOT more power than one might think.

Reveman's declining participation in the effort left Compiz without any leadership or direction.

Standard - A compiz enabled full desktop with a number of pre-installed applications.

Compiz is a compositing window manager for the Xorg graphics system.

KWin features much of the same functionality also present in Compiz.

If compiz didn't suck so hard and unity was just a touch more customizable, I'd be using it more.

After a week of watching compiz suck up my power/cpu, I switched over to xfce and couldn't be happier.

The Compiz feature set includes aesthetic enhancements and functionality that improves the efficiency of window management.

Emerald, a custom decorator with its own theme format that has been ported to Compiz.

Compiz displays a wide array of 2D and 3D effects and has relatively low hardware requirements.

A second-and more successful-attempt to consolidate the disparate factions of the Compiz community was undertaken in 2009.

Compiz recommends nouveau over the Nvidia proprietary driver.

Almost all available Compiz features - except translucency, dimming, and desaturation - are put into plugins.

Compiz provides three window decorators.

Compositing is also used, with compiz and Beryl compositing window managers being the most prominent examples since 2006.

Compiz starts with a blank Widget Layer, allowing the user to add applications by clicking on them.

The project will be led collectively by members of its new community council, which consists of five key members of the Compiz community.

It looks like the actual culprit on my system is probably Compiz, which appears to be using a lot of CPU.

Later, in September 2006, the Beryl compositing window manager was released as a fork of the original Compiz.

Compiz is responsible for bringing rich visual effects such as cube rotation, transparency, shadows, and wobbly windows to the Linux desktop.

Internally Compiz uses the OpenGL library as the interface to the graphics hardware.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and later included Compiz in the universe apt repository.