See-through glxgears

21 March 2009

Yesterday, I installed Ubuntu Jaunty (soon to be Ubuntu 9.04) on my desktop, after I accidentally erased my hard drive by dd’ing an image to /dev/sda, when I meant to dd it to /dev/sda3.

I tested 3D, and I got this interesting effect when running glxgears with compositing support enabled:

See-through glxgears

glxgears seems to be transparent. Don’t know what the purpose of it is, but it looks kind of pretty. Although not as useful as cairo-clock, which has been around for yonks.

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