Komposé

Infobox_Software
name = Komposé


caption = Komposé in fullscreen mode.
developer = [http://oisch.blogspot.com/ Hans Oischinger]
latest_release_version = 0.5.4
latest_release_date = December 2, 2005
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Fullscreen task manager
license = GPL
website = [http://kompose.berlios.de/ kompose.berlios.de]
In computing, Komposé is a free software fullscreen task switcher for the KDE Desktop Environment. As the name suggests, it is inspired by Mac OS X's Exposé.

Komposé provides three different fullscreen modes to view of all your open windows.

1. View of all your windows in a single virtual desktop.

2. View of all the windows grouped by virtual desktop.

3. View of all the windows ungrouped by virtual desktop.

Every window is represented by a scaled screenshot of its own. The user can drag and drop windows from one virtual desktop to another virtual desktop. Also a user can kill a window when it is exposed in fullscreen mode. This program is the basis for Spaces (software) in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

It currently supports the XComposite extension to x.org for faster graphics. It also uses the imlib2 library for fast graphics drawing.

See also

*Exposé
*Taskbar
*List of Exposé clones

External links

* [http://kompose.berlios.de/ Komposé Homepage]