Komposé

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Komposé
Komposé in fullscreen mode.
Developed by	Hans Oischinger
Latest release	0.5.4 / December 2, 2005
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Fullscreen task manager
License	GPL
Website	kompose.berlios.de

In computing, Komposé is a free software fullscreen task switcher for the KDE Desktop Environment. As the name suggests, it is based on Mac OS X's Exposé.

Komposé provides a fullscreen view of all your windows in a single virtual desktop and a view of all the windows grouped 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 bases for Spaces 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.