Aquamarine (window decorator)

Aquamarine is a window decorator for the Beryl compositing window manager.

Aquamarine is designed to look and feel like KWin of the KDE Desktop. The main difference between Aquamarine and KWin is that Aquamarine runs under the Beryl compositing window manager and therefore is able to take advantage of desktop compositing and the eye candy that is made available by it.

Other than the fact that Aquamarine runs under the Beryl compositing window manager, To the end user, There is little noticeable differences or compatibility problems between them. The most major noticeable differences are created when Beryl is ran with certain plug ins such as Wobbly Windows, which cause the decorations to become transformed temporarily. Currently, Aquamarine requires no setup - it automatically selects a theme by reading the user data created by Kwin stored below the user's home directory.

Because of how KWin decorations work, usually a KWin Decorator could not take advantage of compositing effects by itself - A Beryl plug in, however, could help to achieve some effects. Generally, Emerald (window decorator) can achieve many more effects and is much more flexible than Aquamarine because Aquamarine strives to be compatible with KWin.

See also

* Xgl
* AIGLX
* Beryl (window manager)
* Emerald (window decorator)