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GLSL is the OpenGL Shading Language, a high-level programming language for fast and complex hardware-accelerated graphic effects.

GLSL is the OpenGL Shading Language, a high-level programming language for fast and complex hardware-accelerated graphic effects. Multiple incremental versions of the GLSL exist ranging from 1.00 to currently up to 4.60 (the latter being in sync with the accompanying OpenGL version).

To work, it requires support at its language version by the targeted graphics adapter and driver.

GLSL ES is the “little sister” of GLSL, just as OpenGL ES is the “little sister” of OpenGL. Despite the restricted GLSL ES enjoys wide practical use in desktop computing, notably for graphics effects of common graphical user interfaces like those in use by Ubuntu’s desktop variants (GNOME 3, Unity, KDE and their varieties).

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How to install glslc on Ubuntu 20.04?

I want to install glslc , which is one of the tools of shaderc, so I can compile GLSL into Vulkan's SPIR-V shader format. Is there a package that already provides it or I should build it from source? Apparently it's not packed on debian:…
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AMD GL_EXT_gpu_shader4 extension

I have stumbled into a basic OpenGL driver bug and I'm not sure where to report them. Here's how the driver identifies itself and how we create the RC: OpenGL vendor: X.Org OpenGL renderer: AMD CARRIZO (DRM 3.26.0, 4.18.0-13-generic, LLVM…
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CompizConfig color filter not processing shader files

I can enable the color filter, toggle screen filtering with super-d, and then switch filters with ctrl-super-s, but only builtin filters work. I tried adding these filters (fragment…
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