Linux How to Install Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu

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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.

Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal for GNOME users or KMenu -> System -> Konsole for KDE users) and type:

Code: 
sudo apt-get -y remove compiz-core desktop-effects

Leave the terminal open and go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources, click on the second tab (Third-Party Software), then click on the "Add" button and paste the following code:

Code: 
deb [url]http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb[/url] feisty eyecandy

Click the "Add Source" button after you pasted the above code and to the same for the following code:
Code: 
deb-src [url]http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb[/url] feisty eyecandy
Don't close the Software Sources window yet!

In the terminal window, type:
Code: 
wget [url]http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg[/url]
Code: 
sudo apt-key add DD800CD9.gpg
Now click the "Close" button on the Software Sources window and you will be asked if you want to reload the information about available software, so click the "Reload" button and wait for the window to disappear.

Copy/Paste the following lines in the terminal window:
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sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -y upgrade
FOR GNOME USERS:
Code: 
sudo apt-get -y install compiz compiz-gtk compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra libcompizconfig-backend-gconf
FOR KDE USERS:
Code: 
sudo apt-get -y install compiz compiz-kde compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra libcompizconfig-backend-kconfig
Now, if everything was correctly installed and you didn't encounter errors, press ALT+F2 and type:
Code: 
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
  • Super + Shift + C will erase the fire paint
  • Super + Tab activates the Ring Switcher plugin

To watch the video click the url ;- Compiz Fusion

Source: Softpedia
 
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 ;)

Code: 
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>
Uncompressed Size: 1343k
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.;)
 
^^ It works perfectly on Feisty .. just tried on my friends PC.. Super smooth/.. Btw the video watch it ;) Looks awesome :D
 
Does this work on Feisty/AMD64?
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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.
 
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