Despite its Unix underpinnings, Mac OS X does not use the X Window System for its GUI, and early versions had no provision for virtual desktops. Beginning with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in late 2007, Mac OS X has shipped with native virtual desktop support, called Spaces, which allows up to 16 virtual desktops. It allows the user to. Compiz is one of the oldest compositing window managers for Xorg, and though it has become less popular over time, it still has remarkable performance and a very large featureset. Effects are implemented as loadable plugins, and Compiz can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default window managers and compositors of most other desktops. Two versions of Compiz are in existence, Compiz. Compiz (/ kɒmpɪz /) is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. Effects, such as a minimization animation or a cube workspace, are implemented as loadable plugins.
Now that we have setup the perfect desktop using Ubuntu 10.04, its time to make it look sleek and add some eye candy. The procedure to install Compiz and Emerald window decorator on Ubuntu 10.04 is identical to that for Karmic. If you have your desktop effects enabled then it means that you already have Compiz installed and working.
Remember: to get desktop effects working you must install the driver for your video card by going to System > HardwareDrivers and then enabling the appropriate driver. To install the packages needed for emerald and compiz run the following command in a terminal.
sudo apt-get install compiz compiz-plugins compiz-gnome compiz-core emerald compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra fusion-icon compizconfig-settings-manager
Now to have compiz running with your chosen settings and effects you would need to have the fusion-icon app running at all times. Launch it now from Applications > System Tools menu. You should now be able to see a blue cube icon in your taskbar which looks like this
Right click on this icon to reveal this menu:
You can change compiz settings by going into Settings Manager and install new Emerald Themes by launching Emerald Theme Manager. Ubuntu doesn't install themes for Emerald by default. So you would have to download ones you like manually from here or here. My pick is this simple and elegant theme. For installing a bunch of cool themes in one go for Metacity and Emerald including icon packs, see this post.
If anything goes wrong with the window manager and X display looks messed up, then reloading Window Manager should fix it 9 of 10 times. If you want to use emerald to be your default window decorator with Compiz, you can make the selection from Select Window Decorator option in the menu shown above.
Next thing to do is to ensure that compiz gets loaded every time you start/restart your computer. To ensure this, add fusion-icon in the list of Startup Application inside System > Preferences > Startup Application. Click add to enter new startup application and enter fusion-icon –no-start as shown below:Now add it and Compiz would be loaded with your chosen settings every time. Let me also list out couple of my favorite settings for compiz fusion, which you can enable using Settings Manager shown in Menu above.
1. Expose effect (you take your mouse to a chosen corner and you get Mac like Expose effect): For this to work all you need is the Scale (plugin inside Window Management settings selected). Press Win+w to activate it.
You can change compiz settings by going into Settings Manager and install new Emerald Themes by launching Emerald Theme Manager. Ubuntu doesn't install themes for Emerald by default. So you would have to download ones you like manually from here or here. My pick is this simple and elegant theme. For installing a bunch of cool themes in one go for Metacity and Emerald including icon packs, see this post.
If anything goes wrong with the window manager and X display looks messed up, then reloading Window Manager should fix it 9 of 10 times. If you want to use emerald to be your default window decorator with Compiz, you can make the selection from Select Window Decorator option in the menu shown above.
Next thing to do is to ensure that compiz gets loaded every time you start/restart your computer. To ensure this, add fusion-icon in the list of Startup Application inside System > Preferences > Startup Application. Click add to enter new startup application and enter fusion-icon –no-start as shown below:Now add it and Compiz would be loaded with your chosen settings every time. Let me also list out couple of my favorite settings for compiz fusion, which you can enable using Settings Manager shown in Menu above.
1. Expose effect (you take your mouse to a chosen corner and you get Mac like Expose effect): For this to work all you need is the Scale (plugin inside Window Management settings selected). Press Win+w to activate it.
2. Viewport Switching (switch / flip between your virtual workspace or desktop by rotating mouse wheel): This effect used to be enabled by default inside older versions of Ubuntu, but since Karmic they haven't enabled it by default. You can enable it by selecting the following inside Viewport Switcher settings, click on the buttons to enable it and then choose settings of Button5 and Button4 for next and previous workspace. This really helps with the workflow.
3. Desktop Wall to Desktop Cube in Compiz: Just enable the plugin by first un-ticking the Desktop Wall and then ticking the Desktop Cube option. Also tick Rotate Cube and 3D Windows options for enhanced effects. If you have enabled Viewport Switching as described above, you can switch between desktops by rotating mouse wheel, and the desktop flips over like a rotating Cube. Now to get the full 3D view of your Workspace, hold Ctrl+Alt and left click anywhere on the desktop and while holding the left mouse button move the mouse to see your workspace turn in to a virtual polyhedron like one shown below.
4. Drag Windows to Other Workspace
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Compiz is one of the oldest compositing window managers for Xorg, and though it has become less popular over time, it still has remarkable performance and a very large featureset. Effects are implemented as loadable plugins, and Compiz can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default window managers and compositors of most other desktops.
Two versions of Compiz are in existence, Compiz 0.9.0 and Compiz 0.8.0. The former is a rewrite of Compiz in C++ and the latter is the continued-development of the C version of Compiz by the Compiz Reloaded project. Both are adequately maintained, but while Ubuntu carries and develops Compiz 0.9, the package in Debian is the Compiz 0.8 'Reloaded' version. The difference between the two is primarily how many plugins are supported, as the 0.9 rewrite had to exclude many of them. Compiz 0.8 is also popularly considered to be faster and more stable.
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Compiz For Mac
- Installation
- Usage
Compiz
A regular install of Compiz with the Compizconfig Settings Manager and the default plugin collection can be added simply by installing the compiz package.
More plugins can be found in the compiz-plugins-extra package, and even more plugins (albeit unsupported ones) can be found in the compiz-plugins-experimental package.
The desktop-specific pieces, if you're looking to integrate it into another environment, can be found in the compiz-gnome or compiz-mate packages depending on which you're using.
Extras
emerald is a window decorator for Compiz with a custom theme format that is highly customizable. It, in addition to the emerald-themes package, may be interesting to some.
fusion-icon is another useful package that offers a convenient tray icon that allows you to easily enable, disable and restart Compiz, and change the currently used window manager and/or window decorator.
On Debian 11 and newer, the compiz-boxmenu package provides a number of different menus to Compiz. It is composed of a daemon that caches the different menus from various sources, following desktop standards and a number of clients to ask the daemon for a specific type of menu, clients that can be bound to different key-chords and mouse events using the Compizconfig Settings Manager.
Configuration
Before starting Compiz, it's important to configure it, otherwise it'll be impossible to interact with it. Use the Compizconfig Settings Manager to, at least, activate the Window Decoration, Move Window, Resize Window, Place Window, and Application Switcher plugins.
Starting Compiz
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fusion-icon may be a useful tool for starting and stopping Compiz, however on a default setup, you can start Compiz by running:
And view more options by running:
- Switch desktops on cube: Ctrl + Alt + Left/Right Arrow
- Switch desktops on cube - with active window following: Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Left/Right Arrow
- Rotate cube manually: Ctrl + Alt + left-click
- Zoom-in once: Super-key + right-click
- Zoom-in manually: Super-key + wheel mouse up
- Zoom-out manually: Super-key + wheel mouse down
- Move window: Alt + left-click
- Slow-motion: Shift + F10
- Transparency: Put mouse cursor over the window then press Alt + wheel mouse down
- Expose effect: Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow or Point the mouse in top right at screen
- Take screenshot: Super-key + left-click drag
Information regarding the packaging status of Compiz in Debian should be found on the Compiz-devel page, however the page is currently very out-of-date relative to the package's current state in Debian.
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