Compiz-Fusion?

[Chris Miller]

On 9/19/07, Stew Schneider <stew.schneider at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. I'll take a look. I got the cubed desktops at one point, but
> couldn't figure out how to spin them, or why I'd want to. The wobbly
> pages get old quick. Other than these two things, and I'm not being
> snarky, what's it good for?

The primary advantage of letting the GPU handle GUI rendering is that
it removes that strain from the CPU.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xgl

It allows cool things like implementing the GUI layout manager
entirely on GPU without CPU involvement.  Hasn't been done yet AFAIK,
but it makes it theoretically possible in the near future.