How to solve problems in loading Compiz in Ubuntu

The remastered version of the Ubuntu linux with Compiz preinstalled on it might have some working problems on some machines... I have to face the same situation in some of my friends machines with AMD motherboard, when  I  tried to install a version of the Ubuntu which is remastered using an Intel PC. Here is a simple solution through which i have solved this problem to an extend.

1. Click on the Compiz Fusion Icon from Applications >

    System Tools

2. Right click on the Compiz Fusion Icon on the panel

    to open up the menu. Select Compiz from Select 

    Window Manager

  

2. Click on the Reload Window Manager to reload 

    the compiz window manager.

 3. Change the Visual Effects to Normal or Extra. Right 

     click on the desktop and select the Change 

     Desktop Background and then Visual Effects.

4.  This might be enough for loading compiz. You can

     add the command 'compiz-decorator' to the 

     startup applications to automatically launch 

      compiz on logon.

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Compiz effects

Enabling, Rotating and playing with Desktop   
cube

On the settings manager, Mark the box corresponding to the Desktop Cube button. Then click on the Desktop cube to configure the behaviour, appearance and transparency options corresponding to the  to the Desktop cube.

 

Rotate the cube

Mark the box corresponding to the Rotate Cube. Click on the icon to change the settings related to the cube rotation.     

 

Cube Reflection and Deformation

Checkout for the icon Cube Reflection and Deformation. Enable this featutre also inorder to deformate your desktop during the rotation.
See the picture below

Enabling the 3D Windows

Enable the 3D Windows to add up the beauty of the cube and rotation...

 

Adding mouse effects

Check the 'Show mouse' to rotate particle around your mouse

 Zooming Desktop
Not the enhanced zooming option. Mark the 'Zoom Desktop option'

Wobbly windows

To add the rubberband effect to windows on the screen

 

Snow effect

The snow will start fall over your desktop...

Window preview

Window preview will enable a thumbnail view of the windows without opening it

Painting fire on the screen

Check this option to paint fire on your desktop.

Window Switcher

Enable the shift switcher option to give effects to window switching

There are many other graphical customization are there available in the compiz. The main advantage of the compiiz is that it won't eat up your entire processor for it's graphical features. Compiz provides a deasent amount utiliization of the processor and RAM without affecting the other CPU activities...  

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Compiz magic

                                  The Compiz Fusion project tries to bring us all the latest 3D technologies, such as Cube reflection, paint fire on your desktop and a lot of new eye candy animations. Compiz Fusion 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 Fusion is an open-source software project, meaning anyone can use it freely and contribute.


Compiz Gallore

                                                                                                  

Installing Compiz

Take the terminal and type in as follows

sudo apt-get -y install compiz compiz-gnome compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra libcompizconfig-backend-gconf



Preliminaries

Before going on to the compiz settings, first change the Visual Effects to normal or extra. Right click on the desktop and select the change desktop background option. Click on the visual effects tab to change the visual effects.

Click on the Applications --> System tools --> Compiz Fusion Icon

Then the compiz fusion icon will appear on the right of the top panel. Right click on the icon and slelect the Settings Manager.

If you can not change the visual effects click on the Relooad Window manager to change the visual effects from basic to normal or extra.

Read more compiz features on the upcoming posts

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