Ever wondered how to make your Ubuntu desktop more spiffy? It’s easy when you enable the desktop effects through Compiz Fusion, and I made a quick tutorial will to show you how. If you don’t know, Compiz “aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness.” – Compiz Website Here’s how you get started: First we will enable Compiz by going to System—–Preferences——Appearance—-Visual Effects and choosing the “Extra” radio button. Then we will open a terminal and install ccsm.. twurl.nl for the rest of the text version of the video, including the commands. Thanks for all your input and support! Beryl merged with Compiz-Fusion, for those who have asked. EDIT: Known bug and FIX with Computer: Intel 2.5Ghz, nvidia geforce 8400 Ubuntu 9.04 x64 Compiz 0.8.2 For the cube, the settings sometimes are not changed in the compiz file and must be done manually: Run gconf-editor (alt+f2) Change: /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/hsize: 4 and /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/number_of_desktops: 1 Thanks a lot for the tip, blindguardian72! =D
Compiz Fusion on Your Desktop : Howto Ubuntu
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
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January 29th, 2010 at 2:15 am
Müssen sich eigentlich alle komischen amerikanischen Kinder ins Internet stellen, um sich wichtig zu tun. . .
January 29th, 2010 at 2:17 am
a fantastic coherent rebuttle to my point, until i read your comment i was starting to believe youtube was solely populated by teenage girls unable to string together a basic sentance, thanks strain you’ve restored my faith in the internet community
January 29th, 2010 at 2:28 am
i have the same problem with Merts
January 29th, 2010 at 3:06 am
Is it possible to do it on Ubuntu 9. 10 running on a VMWare?
I tried changing my Visual Effects from “None” to “Extra” since I have a really good machine, But it wont let me. I get seaching for drivers and then nothing happens.
Can you show me how to do it? I’m new to Linux and I am starting to like it. I just need some time to adapt.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:18 am
How do you get seamonkey on ubuntu
January 29th, 2010 at 3:51 am
Nice vid!
One of my friends has Ubuntu. We also wanted to do some fun with it. So we watched ur tutorial. At 0:46 we met some problems. A message popped up every time. He got a brand new acer with windows vista+ ubuntu.
What is going wrong?
January 29th, 2010 at 4:07 am
But ofcourse there are some programs in some domains of activity that exist only in windows and their Linux equivalents just won’t do the trick. But that’s only because most important programs are primally developed for Windows, ’cause there’s where big money come from, Linux being mostly free. So the difference it’s actually something about money and not because windows it’s better than Linux. Any complex open source program it’s better than a licensed one just because it’s open source.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:10 am
In linux you can run a lot of windows games using Wine a program with cross platform capabilities. Not to mention there are a lot of 3d native linux games either, but they’re mostly online orientated. For example my favorite and the only game I play anymore, is Danger from the deep, one of the few submarine sims which is free and it’s mainly developed for linux. As online 3d games:True combat elite, Tremulous, Nexuiz, Vendetta etc.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:56 am
actually in Linux you can do pretty much everything that you can do in Windows. The difference is that Linux might imply writing some code lines, but only in some particular cases, the Linux GUI evolved a lot in the last 10 years, and actually if you have some imagination you can make it look even better than Windows. Nixie’s tutorials always show how it’s done using code lines, but almost everything she did through code lines could be done from Ubuntu’s GUI, using synaptic and proper sources.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:16 am
i dont really wanna enter the debate about windows v linux seeing as dev’s did that already and windows won.
however linux is good for pretty much nothing i use my computer for i. e gaming. . . . soon as they make a functional OS that is supported by anyone at all ill switch to that, until then windows all the way
January 29th, 2010 at 6:01 am
@JesusManson323 Well, watching someone just type in the terminal aint that much fun so. . . . Im using Ubuntu right now . . Works perfect for ALL stuff i need to do. Windows is for play ie kid OS.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:18 am
@JesusManson323
I’ve been using Ubuntu for college since 2007. Come back when you have something useful to say.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:27 am
I just followed each one of your steps and it worked. . . is just amazing. . .
THANK YOU FOR SHARING. . .
January 29th, 2010 at 7:17 am
I think Ubuntu should get a better settings manager so you can make your own “Normal” and “Extra” profiles. You should also teach people how to use . bash_aliases, in fact Ubuntu should have a wizard with tool-tips etc so users can shorten the most commonly used Terminal commands themselves with the click of a button.
January 29th, 2010 at 7:17 am
Did your airbag deploy? LOL!
January 29th, 2010 at 7:27 am
shame that I live in Germany, you could teach me something. . .
January 29th, 2010 at 7:46 am
Why is it that all the Linux fanboys are obsessed with turning a cube on their screen around a million times?
Why are there NO VIDEOS on Linux applications and actual work you can accomplish on Linux?
It’s all just visual masturbation.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:07 am
could you please give me the name of that black theme??
January 29th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Hey thanks for the tutorial, will try in VMware Workstation 7, the virtualiztion software which can run Aero in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:45 am
Very helpful!
Thank you Very much!
January 29th, 2010 at 9:02 am
ok
January 29th, 2010 at 9:26 am
it is on compiz and for enable them check the box also i found that on the 3rd box u must type : type=Normal | Dialog | ModalDialog | Utility | Unknown)
January 29th, 2010 at 9:48 am
i found it just do extra animations
January 29th, 2010 at 10:03 am
me too . . . . what we should do. . . . ?
January 29th, 2010 at 11:00 am
problem solved