Compiz Fusion on Your Desktop : Howto Ubuntu

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 …

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25 Responses to Compiz Fusion on Your Desktop : Howto Ubuntu

  1. erwinwildenburg says:

    U R pretty hot for a geek girl! :O

  2. rasiakwood says:

    linux is ugly not because it does or doesnt have this effects (with are mostly useless) but because it looks so unpolished. For example fonts are terrible in 99% of distribution – yes you can change that – but why bother?
    And compiz works terrible on my x3100 laptop – and i dont have time to play with it.

  3. russell56443 says:

    Did you go toAnimations, Effect settings and enable(Random animations for all events)?
    Thats what I missed lol!

  4. russell56443 says:

    Thanks for the tutorial!
    I just got Ubuntu running today and have been playing with Opensuse 7.1 for a few weeks,I hate Windows more and more each day lol!

  5. ikemkrueger says:

    Compiz is a manager for windows (this here is a window ;) . With Compiz you are able to make fancy effects when you minimize/restore/maximize/move a window. On example for an effect is “wobbling”.

  6. ikemkrueger says:

    Probably the default graphic driver doesn’t support hardware acceleration.

  7. ikemkrueger says:

    I don’t like the compiling. Also, Gentoo has nearly no wizards.

  8. neothematrixhacker says:

    What theme are you using? It’s really awesome. Also, I can’t get the fire effect. Only some like slide and fade.

  9. addiskun says:

    lol first your voice is very low
    i love ubuntu
    im going to be trying it for my first time today
    actually second but first real time

  10. anonymous4672 says:

    You should be using debian,ubuntu makes u look like a nub…lol jk

  11. c3cool says:

    i though you got comipz throught Application >add remove> search compiz and it is done the way you show looks more complex why

  12. powerinstars6 says:

    Yeah, I love Gentoo’s Portage. In my opinion, it’s far superior than Aptitude in Ubuntu. I also love the flexibility of installing what I only need, as opposed to what may be there already and installed for me, but it’s not as minimalistic as Linux From Scratch. On the other hand, I’m rather quickly converting to FreeBSD. ;)

  13. kawreaVII says:

    I enabled the burn effect but it still doesn’t show up any ideas why?

  14. Amebixfan says:

    you’re just as hot as my Debian xfce desktop babe

  15. georgehwbush says:

    *you’re

  16. JonForTheWin says:

    How the hell do you not know the difference between a window and a workspace?

  17. XXXWes says:

    I’m 12 years old and what is this?

  18. Vikruntasas says:

    Nice tutorial, pleasant voice :)
    Very cool to see a girl using Linux
    But your desktop is too dark xD

  19. kalamoni says:

    awesome tool ..!

  20. hi222222223333333333 says:

    your hot

  21. chriskindle says:

    Compiz works great under XFCE, I was using it while I had Mint XFCE edition and had no problems with it whatsoever.

  22. crassify says:

    Great vids for people just starting out, or just making the switch to *nix. Ubuntu is a great distro to start out with. So much more that can be learned, so keep up the good work. Archlinux & Gentoo all the way, any day!

  23. martini1179 says:

    Compiz is hella-smooth, but I’ll take a working libmtp and a Firefox that doesn’t crash on a daily basis over Compiz any day.

  24. martini1179 says:

    Nixie, you damn minx! Getting me all hot like that with that soft, bedroom voice and that hot Compiz action.

    I’ll have you know that after watching this vid, I had to spend half an hour perusing Youtube Compiz porn.

  25. frvfilms says:

    yeah nix, your voice is relaxn and sexy

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