Almost one year ago we presented Swap plugin here. Now we renamed it to Swapper and ported to Compiz++ (future Compiz 0.9).

Just to remember that it allows you to swap the geometry of two windows. Basically we changed Switcher plugin to swap active window with another window.

Swapper could be inserted on new Compiz if everybody likes it. Waiting for replies!

Video:

Code

For some, the great desktop effects of Compiz-Fusion (the OpenGL window and compositing manager formerly known as Beryl) were the reason they tried Ubuntu in the first place. Desktop effects are not enabled by default, since they might unsettle older systems, and for many users they are just an unwanted distraction. If you have them running, you’ve already figured out how to enable them (if not, go to System > Preferences > Appearance, go to the Visual Effects tab, and choose either “Normal” or “Extra“), but you may be wondering how to take control over them.

First off, install compizconfig-settings-manager, as this is what lets you customise basically every aspect of your desktop effects. Not only can you choose what animations you want for certain tasks (like minimise and close window, etc), but you can edit how they work. That means you can speed up or slow down animated effects, as well as change the settings for every animation plug-in. You can disable some parts of Compiz-Fusion that you don’t particularly care for, and enable a whole lot of other features you never even knew existed. CompizConfg Settings Manager will reside in System > Preferences.

Compiz-Fusion ships with a bunch of plugins (compiz-fusion-plugins-main), but you may need to install compiz-fusion-plugins-extra to get more awesome effects, like Burn (it seems Ubuntu now installs that package, but if it isn’t marked as installed in Synaptic, then you’ll need to install it).

You can also install compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported – “an extended collection of plugins which have received the least amount of review and are the most likely to be problematic on your system.” As you can see, this is a use at your own risk package, but if the plugins you have aren’t enough, you can always give these a try.

To get a system tray icon that gives you easy access to settings, install fusion-icon. To run Compiz Fusion Icon, go to Applications > System Tools. You’ll find this invaluable for restarting Compiz-Fusion if it has crashed, as it has a Reload Window Manager option on the menu.

For adding and changing advanced window border and titlebar themes, you will need to install emerald. You’ll find Emerald Theme Manager in System > Preferences, and the themes it uses have an .emerald extension. Many themes offer semi-transparent glass-like titlebars, animated control buttons, and shadow and glow around the window borders. They can vary wildly, with themes for basically any taste. You are bound to find a few that you find stunning, so do a web search for “emerald themes”, and download some and import them. You will see previews of them once installed, and all you have to do is click on a preview to enable that theme. And any you don’t like, you can delete. What’s more, you can actually edit installed themes, and save them as your own.

This should be all you need to get you going on the path to greater desktop effects. Have a good look around in the settings manager, and try out some of the cool features not enabled by default. And have a play around with changing some of your plug-ins, like turn the flames of Burn purple and yellow, or add heaps more wobble to Magic Lamp and make it last much longer (that actually looks really good on minimise and restore). Then find some Emerald themes to import, and if you find one you love, but don’t like the titlebar font, or want more opacity, you can edit it. You can control basically every aspect of how your windows are decorated, so if you can’t find any themes you like 100%, then make your own!

Esta es una guia de que se necesita y como instalar los paquetes Compiz y la barra de tareas AWN (Avant Window Navigator).

Compiz es uno de los primeros gestores de composicion de ventas que aprovecha las aceleracion 3D de OpenGL. Con el se puede configurar nuestro escritorio de muchas maneras, como efectos de ondulación de ventanas, efectos de minimizaciones, el famoso desktop cube, etc. Está conformado por el core de compiz en el cual se le adosan los plugins de los efectos que querramos poner.

AWN o Avant Window Navigator es una barra de estado que se agrega a nuestro escritorio. Es muy parecida en aspecto a la barra que tiene el Mac OS X.

Estos son algunos Screenshots sacados de la página de Softpedia en la sección de Linux:

Primero que nada tenemos que hacer una actualización de nuestra lista de los repositorios

aptitude update

Luego vamos a poder instalar lo necesario para el compiz:

aptitude install compiz-gnome compizconfig-settings-manager fusion-icon

Luego si queremos agregar algunos otros plugins que vienen con el compiz lo que debemos hacer es:

aptitude install compiz-plugins

Una vez que esto termine vamos a poder usar nuestro escritorio con compiz ejecutando en la consola:

fusion-icon

Si queremos que esto se cargue en el inicio de nuestra sesion lo que debemos hacer es agregar el comando en Sistema -> Preferencias -> Sesiones. Damos click al boton agregar y agregamos el comando “fusion-icon” y el programa se cargará al inicio de nuestra sesion.

Para manejar los efectos del compiz tenemos que ir a Sistema -> Preferencias -> CompizConfig Setting Manager. Alli vamos apoder modificar todos los efectos que tenga instalado nuestro compiz fusion.

Ahora bien, con nuestro compiz fusion instalado vamos a instalar la barra Avant Window Navigator, y para eso en una consola ponemos:

aptitude install avant-window-navigator avant-window-navigator-data

Una vez que termine la instalación podemos correr nuestra barra si en una consola ponemos:

avant-window-navigator

Como con compiz, si queremos que se cargue al inicio de nuestra sesion este comando lo tenemos que agregar en Sistema -> Preferencias -> Sesiones.

Para manejar la configuración de nuestra barra AWN podemos ejecutar en Sistema -> Preferencias -> AWN Manager o poniendo en la cosola:

awn-manager

Alli vamos a poder agregar botones, cambiar la forma de la barra (3D o Flat), sombras, etc.

Links importantes:

• http://wiki.awn-project.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Daha önce compiz pencere yöneticisini kullanmış olduğumdan, yararlı ve zevkli bir masaüstü ile çalışmıştım.Compiz-fusion ‘un iyi yanları, geniş eklenti desteği sayesinde pencereler arası geçiş ve pencerelerin masaüstündeki düzenlenmesini pratikleştiriyordu.Zamanla kullanma alışkanlığını kaybettim.Fakat özellikle bu iki özelliği kullanamamak, benim açımdan bir eksiklik olarak kaldı.Ta ki awesome’u kurana kadar…
Awesome3′ü sitesinden , Arch linux kullanıyorsanız adresindeki yönergeler üzerinden kurabilirsiniz.Mouse kullanımını azaltmak için Awesome biçilmiş kaftan gibi duruyor.

Bueno, no soy muy fanático de la personalización del escritorio, de hecho me gusta bastante el estándar de GNOME y estoy bastante conforme con él, pero de vez en cuando encuentro uno que otro gadget útil, principalmente, terminales de acceso rápido, nunca se sabe cuando necesitarás una terminal xD.

Una consola emblemática en este sentido es Guake, presionando F12 se desplega automágicamente y tenemos una consola totalmente funcional, una gran mejora de eficiencia contra presionar Alt + F2 y tipear gnome-terminal.

Pero buscando una terminal distinta por internet, me topé con este post en Ces’s Blog que nos da un maravilloso terminal basado en gnome-terminal que se empotra en el escritorio.

Estos son los pasos a seguir si desean tener uno: (al parecer son independientes de la distro)

1. Instalar Compiz.
2. Activar los plugins de RegEx
3. Crear un perfil en su consola con fondo totalmente transparente y nombrarlo trans, sigan estos pasos mejor:
4. Ahora nos movemos al gestor de configuración de Compiz y añadimos estas entradas:lo puse así por mi resolución de pantalla (1440×900)
5. Importante, no lo usen como perfil determinado, a menos que quieran que todas sus gnome-terminal sean de ese estilo.

Bueno, este ha sido el post más perezozo que he hecho, no escribí casi nada, pero esta funcion está wena xD.

Spinner Rims plug-in

More info Here!

En toda comparativa de Ubuntu contra Windows (las pueden checar en Youtube) aparece un efecto muy bonito que deja a más de uno con la boca abierta o por lo menos diciendo “ahhh orale eso esta chido”, el efecto del “Cubo”, sin embargo recuerdo que cuando aún decidía entre seguir con Windows e instalarme una cosa que se llamaba Ubuntu, me preguntaba, ¿cómo sacar este efecto?, instalé Ubuntu y por ningún lado (y en serio lo digo, por ningún lado) encontraba algo que me dijera cómo sacar el cubo, si, ya había instalado compiz y todo pero nadie decía cómo sacar el cubo o los efectos tan vistosos de escritorio.

Ahora después de varios meses, sé perfectamente cómo hacerlo y sigo sorprendiendo a más de uno (de hecho sacar el cubo es de las cosas que hacen que la gente te diga “me lo instalas”), así que por eso he decidido hacer este tutorial (fiel a mi constumbre, un tutorial que todo el mundo entiende), para todos aquellos que inician en esto y quieren que su computadora este más chula que Megan Fox jeje.

Primero vamos a instalar Compiz Fusion

1. Nos vamos a la terminal (si no sabes qué es la terminal lee primero esto) y escribimos lo siguiente:

sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager emerald

Una vez terminado, ya tenemos Compiz Fusion instalado, ahora activemos los efectos de escritorio:

1. Nos vamos a la Configuración Avanzada de Efectos de Escritorio, que podrás encontrar en Sistema>Preferencias>Configuración Avanzada de Efectos de Escritorio, saldrá la siguiente ventana:

2. Ahora nos vamos a donde dice “Opciones generales”, le damos click ahí y nos vamos a la pestaña que dice “Tamaño de escritorio”, ahí ponemos los datos en el siguiente orden:

Horizontal: 4

Vertical: 1

No. de escritorios: 1

Ya con eso en la barra inferior (si la tienen), aparecerán más escritorios, ahora para poner el cubo:

1. Regresamos a la ventana de configuración avanzada de efectos de escritorio y ahí “palomeamos” los siguientes efectos:

Cubo de escritorio;

Rotar cubo y;

Ventanas en 3D

Con esto ahora sólo aprieta Ctrl+Alt+Click del ratón hacía cualquier lado y saldrá el poderoso cubo, puedes palomear los efectos que gustes dentro de la ventana, eso sí, algunos son compatibles, otros no, es decir, si activas uno, tal vez desactives otro efecto, cuando esto pase, saldrá una advertencia.

Ahora vamos con los efectos de las ventanas:

1. Para que tus ventanas se muevan como “gelatina”, activa la opción Wobbly Windows.

2. Para que tus ventanas al minimizarse, maximizarse y cerrarse tengan efectos como doblarse como un avión de papel, quemarse, explotar o salir como de una lámpara mágica (mi favorito), tenemos que activar las “Animaciones” de las ventanas.

Para lograrlo en la misma ventana de configuración de efectos avan…. le picamos en donde dice “Animaciones”, nos abrirá está ventana:

Como podrán notar, hay varias pestañas, cada una es para cada acción de las ventanas: cerrar, abrir, minimizarse y maximizarse, bajamos la flechita que dice “efectos avanzados” y saldrán varios efectos, seleccionamos los que más nos gusten (también podemos seleccionar la opción “aleatorio” para que aleatoriamente (wow que genio) salgan los efectos.

Experimenten hasta que obtengan el efecto deseado.

Saludos.

I remember a couple of years back when I started using GNU/Linux: Ubuntu’s 7.04 was probably the flagship of the GNU/Linux movement, encouraging people to use “Linux for human beings” (that probably meant I wasn’t a human being since I had been using Debian Sarge for a couple of months before the 7.04 release) and the Compiz project (and to some smaller extent, the Beryl project) was surely the most important eye-candy feature the movement offered newcomers, showing it was possible to have a beautiful desktop outside the mainstream operating systems.

I was attracted too, I have to say. I remember playing around with di3go’s recently acquired laptop and it’s X Server configuration (back in those days running Compiz was little less than magic craft specially on an ATI video card) until I got the cube rotation effect working. I then bought my own laptop but Compiz couldn’t fully run on my integrated ATI video card (I only had the wobbly and some fade effects) so it wasn’t until I bought my new PC at the end of that year that I could run desktop effects at a reasonable performance. Nevertheless, I was a big fan of the project even throughout the months I couldn’t run it myself. We used Compiz heavily at the FLISOL that year and the year after (2007 and 2008) to attract people to the Linux adoption.

Looking back at those days, now from a different perspective of the meaning of GNU/Linux, i.e. as a Free Software activist instead of just a Linux User, I recognized a subtle flaw on the usage of Compiz as a project to attract masses to the Free Software movement which I consider should be fixed for upcoming Free Software events like Software Freedom Day and next year’s FLISOL: we usually promoted the use of Compiz with the non free drivers provided either by NVidia or ATI. Even without specifically stating people should install proprietary drivers, we didn’t specifically state people should use free drivers for their video cards neither, which is harmful for those projects and for the Free Software movement in general. The reason we had to use proprietary drivers was simple, though: it’s a lot easier to get things rolling on the proprietary drivers, plus the free drivers lack of some of the latest capabilities offered by vendor-provided drivers not because the programmers on the free driver projects are not as good  as the companies’ ones, but because the companies won’t release specifications in time and most of the work of free driver projects are done by reverse engineering. I myself ran Compiz Fusion on propietary NVidia drivers on my Frugalware Linux before I changed to KDE 4.0 and it wasn’t until ATI’s Catalyst driver dropped support on my laptop’s integrated video card on latest drivers that I switched to radeon free driver on it, and I haven’t got Compiz running on this driver yet.

So yes, it’s true: it’s not as easy to set up Compiz Fusion on free drivers as it is to set it on the proprietary ones maybe just because there’s a lot more documentation on the web for the former ones. But then if we can’t get those working for demonstrations, it’s a good time to practice one of Richard Stallman’s most important teachings: if you are to choose between showing software you cannot run on a free platform and not showing it, do not show it.

And yes, you may not agree with me. I expect to read comments from people saying that it’s better to use “semi-free” software to bring people “closer” to freedom. But is freedom a fuzzy concept? or is it binary? You are always free to choose your definition of freedom.

I must add a disclaimer here: I’m a big fan of the Compiz Fusion project and I’m still trying to get it running again on my radeon driver (it’s on my never-ending TODO list, and I’ll post about that if I get it working) even though di3go already dropped the enthusiasm on it (he claims to hate desktop effects actually ).

Compiz Fusion

Esta nueva versión de los drivers ATI libres mejora el soporte 3D para gráficas Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD 4000. Es una lástima que no cubra los 1xxx, pues todavía debe de haber mucha gente que los necesite. En todo caso, es un muy buen comienzo. ¡Buen trabajo!

Fuente: Phoronix

Visto en: MuyLinux

I have heard a lot of good feedback and saw really nice screenshots of Mint 7 Gloria, both Gnome and KDE versions. I had about 15GB of free space on a Western Digital USB drive and thought I’d go ahead and try it out. I already had Ubuntu and previous versions of Mint installed on the same drive. I booted up my Mint 6 system, downloaded the iso and burned it onto a CD with no issues. The computer I was and still am using is a Sony Vaio VGN-CR35G laptop with an ATI graphics card.

The installation itself was a breeze. No different from other processes I’ve gone through. The way my drive is set up is not unusual. I have 10GB partitions for the linux distros that I try out and a single /home partitions that is slightly larger. During the first boot, I was impressed with how great and streamlined it looks from login screen to desktop. I have no issues with drivers and the wireless works without any fuss, just like other versions. I feel that the run time from boot to desktop is faster and the annoying beep at shutdown isn’t there anymore. I’m excited to plug this drive into other computers in the house to see if compatibility would be an issue. I will have to write another entry on that.

Overall, I’d have to say that this is the easiest install that I have ever done. If I remember correctly, it is the quickest finish too. The artwork that comes with it is top caliber as always. You can never have too much eye candy. Compiz runs and works by default, which is great. I can’t really say anything more other than I wish I could sync this with my Ubuntu One account. Currenty, UO is in its beta stage and can only be used with a Jaunty system. Hopefully, that gap will be bridged in the near future. At the rate things go right now, that’s probably soon.

Los usuarios de Compiz pueden obtener una considerable mejora del rendimiento de flash en modo de pantalla completa (full screen) desactivando la opción:

Unredirect Fullscreen Windows

via | System >> Preferences >> CompizConfig Settings Manager >> General Options >> General.

Ver Bug

Signore e signori, il futuro si avvicina… chi di voi non ha mai sognato una cosa del genere?

Quello che avete visto è frutto della combinazione (aka COMBO) di Compiz Fusion e di una semplice webcam compatibile con il progetto OpenCV, condita con un po’ di pene dell’inferno per compilare OpenCV da terminale.

Premessa

Questa guida, il software utilizzato ed i plugin che andrete ad installare sono sperimentali ed instabili. Quello che vi consiglio e di non proseguire nel caso non sappiate quello che state facendo per evitare così di ritrovarvi un sistema compromesso… io ve l’ho detto!

Preliminari

Controllate se la vostra webcam è presente nel seguente elenco: compatibilità webcam. Se è presente potete continuare, altrimenti potreste comunque proseguire e controllare se il plugin funziona comunque con la vostra cam. (e ovviamente segnalarla agli sviluppatori di OpenCV!)

Iniziamo a vedere cosa serve per avere questa meraviglia funzionante:

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core libtool compiz-dev libcompizconfig0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev libavutil49 compiz-fusion-bcop

Download OpenCV

Procuratevi l’ultima versione di OpenCV:

svn co https://opencvlibrary.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opencvlibrary/tags/latest_tested_snapshot

Dopo poco dovreste aver scaricato l’ultimo snapshot disponibile.

Installazione OpenCV

Come dalla migliore tradizione:

./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig -v
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Se fino a qui non avete avuto problemi di sorta, dovreste aver installato OpenCV correttamente. Passiamo al plugin per Compiz!

Download Plugin

Per scaricare il plugin utilizzate git:

git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/users/klange/headtracking

Installazione Plugin

Al solito, siamo tradizionali:

cd headtracking
make
sudo make install

se compilando il plugin incappate in questo errore:

facedetect.c: In function ‘headtrackThread’:
facedetect.c:264: error: too few arguments to function ‘cvRetrieveFrame’

Scaricate e installate il plugin presente qui.

Risultato ed utilizzo

Ora se aprire il compizconfigsetting-manager (gestore configurazione di Compiz) dovreste avere a disposizione un nuovo plugin nella categoria extras chiamato headtracking:

E se siete fortunati.. mooolto fortunati, una volta attivato dovreste vedere le finestre spostarsi a sinistra/destra a seconda dei vostri movimenti per simulare l’effetto 3D. Buona fortuna!

Fonti:
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/

http://www.ilportalinux.it/content/installare-il-plugin-headtracking-di-compiz-su-linux#

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=7744&page=70

Dopo essere passato ad Ubuntu JJ che integra Compiz 0.8.2 nei propri repos, ho giustamente perso i plugin precedentemente installati seguendo la guida nel forum ufficiale: Plugin su Hardy, Intrepid e Feisty.

Ma finalmente mi sono deciso a rimettere il rilassante+noninvadente+gradevole Compiz Screensaver. Dopo aver cercato un po’, sono giunto a questo post che sembra risolvere tutti i miei problemi di compilazione e fornisce anche le istruzioni  per aggiungere i plugins Atlantis e FreeWins.Se quando compilate, il sistema vi restituisce un errore riguardante BCOP, date in un terminale i comandi:

sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-bcop
make clean

e ricompilate (comandi make e successivi) continuando con la guida!

Happy cube a tutti!

I’m really excited because after wait for long time, finally Compiz Fusion 3D works on my PC. Yeah… it’s possible because i dump my ATI VGA and change it with NVIDA VGA 7200 GS. I use Ubuntu 9.04. Wow… Very impressive 3D effect

Click en la imàgen para ver el video [YouTube]

In Ubuntu jaunty 9.04 that’s not the default behaviour. So install all the wanted widgets then right click on them and in Window select the following:

Sticky
Widget
Keep below

If as soon as you select the Widget settings the widget disappear it means that the Widget layer plugin is activated in your compiz fusion options. Inactivate this option in CompizConfig Settings Manager.
 
The goal of the widget layer is to have the widgets displayed on top of all your windows when pressing a special key – F9 is the default key.