Three new experimental plugins for compiz-fusion have recently been released...
- Atlantis2: Adds an aquarium to the dekstop with customizable fish.
- Freewins: Lets you rotate and resize windows in 3D.
- Screensaver: Let's you rotate the cube or make the windows fly as a screensaver.
Here's a screenshot for screensaver with the "flying windows" animation. Although, somehow the animation isn't clean and there are a few graphic glitches.
And my personal favourite - screensaver with "rotating cube" animation ... very smooth, very clean, I can go idle just to watch this thing rotate away in it's full glory ;)
I will post a screenshot for the Freewins plugin as soon as I figure out how it works :) I'm kinda "bizzy" watching the cube rotate :D.
All three are available through a "git" download
To install these plugins make sure you have the following packages installed:
- compiz-bcop
- compiz-dev
- build-essential
- libtool
- libglu1-mesa-dev
- libxss-dev
- libcairo2-dev
- git-core
In Ubuntu, you can do this using the following command :
sudo apt-get install compiz-bcop compiz-dev build-essential libtool libglu1-mesa-dev libxss-dev libcairo2-dev git-core
Download the plugins from the terminal using the following commands, make a new directory to download these if you want to keep everything neat and clean :)
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/users/metastability/atlantis2
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/users/warlock/freewins
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/users/pafy/screensaver
Each plugin will be downloaded to its individual directory...
go to each directory through the terminal and do
make && make install
Now, you can access the new plugins through System->Preferences->Compiz Config Settings Manager..
Cheers! :)
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