More Compiz Fusion Woes: Reflexion Plugin

The Reflexion plugin is supposed to add a "reflexion" to transparent objects and shadows, rather like the immobile sun-rays that are rendered in the Windows Vista transparent places, except completely customisable.  It was always something I wanted to try, so when I found I could do it in Compiz Fusion, I naturally tried it.

It worked, in that I could see the reflexion.  The problem was that my computer slowed to a halt, just like with the alpha-blur in my other post.  I don't know if the plugin existed in the old Beryl, but I would hypothesise that it would have worked for me there, because the blur worked in Beryl.  I don't see why Compiz Fusion has such a hard time making cool features work with my graphics card, when an outdated software did just fine...

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Problems with alpha-blur in Compiz Fusion

I have an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M video card, or something along those lines, and am using the restricted drivers under XGL in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10.  Most everything in Compiz Fusion works nicely and smoothly except for the alpha-blur.  Alpha-blur is when transparent objects blur the content behind them, sort of like in Vista window-borders, or behind "sheets" in Leopard, I think. Anyway, I have been trying to get it to work for ages, but whenever I get close, my computer starts to freeze up and it takes a few minutes before I can revert to the old settings.  An important thing to note is that the blur did work smoothly in the old Beryl, but it doesn't work in Compiz Fusion.  What has changed that makes it not work?  It is really quite annoying to me.

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Transparent window backgrounds for linux, like vista

No, they don't really exist, but I would really like them to... Windows Vista has transparent window borders, but I don't mind, because I can get those with Beryl on Linux. But what about the window backgrounds? Remember Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player? They backgrounds of them, not just the window borders, are transparent.

I think that it is really pretty. I also like being able to drag the window around on the transparent parts. I would love for a new version of KDE or GTK to be able to do these kinds to things. That would be so cool.