Patent ID: 7996787
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for window management and desktop compositing effects, wherein the system comprises: a plug-in architecture storing a plurality of visual effect plug-ins, wherein the plurality of visual effect plug-ins include visual effect instructions for rendering a plurality of visual effects on a desktop; a computing device coupled to the plug-in architecture storing the plurality of visual effect plug-ins, wherein the computing device includes a desktop manager configured to: a graphics card configured to receive one or more visual effect instructions associated with the instantiated visual effect plug-ins from the desktop manager, wherein the one or more visual effect instructions cause the graphics card to render the one or more visual effects combined with the composited window on the desktop displayed on the screen coupled to the computing device; and a configuration interface coupled to the computing device including the one or more pre-configured event bindings, wherein the configuration interface enables a user to customize the one or more pre-configured event bindings for the one or more instantiated visual effect plug-ins.