The following guide will teach you (step by step) how to install Compiz Fusion on your Ubuntu (Kubuntu) 7.04 operating system. Be aware that Compiz Fusion is still in heavy development, so it may not be very stable. For me (at this moment) it’s pretty stable, as I didn’t encounter any bugs.
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Open a terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal for GNOME users or KMenu → System → Konsole for KDE users) and type:
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compiz --replace
That’s it! Enjoy the latest 3D eye candy effects on your (K)Ubuntu OS.
Some quick tricks:
Hold CTRL + ALT keys and with the left mouse button rotate the cube
Super + E activates the Expo plugin
Hold Super + Shift and with your mouse paint fire on your desktop
Actually do not know how good it will work on feisty for it sure is gonna be more sweet on gutsy for the simple reason of having the updated X.org (version 7.2) which should lead to better rendering, graphics & hence better effects.
On gutsy
aptitude show xserver-xorg
Package: xserver-xorg
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1:7.2-3ubuntu3
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
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Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-3), xserver-xorg-video-all | xserver-xorg-video-1.0 | xserver-xorg-video,
xserver-xorg-input-all | xserver-xorg-input, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, xkb-data | xkb-data-legacy, xbase-clients
PreDepends: x11-common (>= 7.0.0-0ubuntu3)
Recommends: xserver-xorg-video-all, xserver-xorg-input-all, laptop-detect, xresprobe, mdetect, discover1 | discover, dmidecode
Conflicts: xserver-xfree86 (< 6.8.2.dfsg.1-1), xserver-common
Replaces: xserver-common
Description: the X.Org X server
This package depends on the full suite of the server and drivers for the X.Org X server, as well as providing a configuration
infrastructure to manage xorg.conf. It does not provide the actual server itself, but removing it is strongly discouraged.
Of course, I cannot show any effects for mine is an aging i845 chipset , which has only 8 mb of VRAM not adequate or powerful enough to show what that beast to do. The best would have been to set up a fiesty machine & a gutsy instance on another partition so one could evaluate on both. I want to do that but just been tired keeping up with all that has been happening in the linux space.
Compiz Fusion is not a full release yet, and has quite a lot of bugs in it still, there is not a lot of support for x64 yet. The only way to get around this is to make sure you have 32 bit libraries installed, and a lot of time to fix/figure it out. I wouldn’t advise you to play with this on 64 bit anything yet. Just use Beryl for the time being.
Just use Beryl for the time being.