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bring the bling back Alt+F2 gconf-editor desktop, gnome, interface, check “buttons have icons” “menu have icons “

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Ever wondered how to make your Ubuntu desktop more spiffy? It’s easy when you enable the desktop effects through Compiz Fusion, and I made a quick tutorial will to show you how. If you don’t know, Compiz “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 Website Here’s how you get started: First we will enable Compiz by going to System—–Preferences——Appearance—-Visual Effects and choosing the “Extra” radio button. Then we will open a terminal and install ccsm.. twurl.nl for the rest of the text version of the video, including the commands. Thanks for all your input and support! Beryl merged with Compiz-Fusion, for those who have asked. EDIT: Known bug and FIX with Computer: Intel 2.5Ghz, nvidia geforce 8400 Ubuntu 9.04 x64 Compiz 0.8.2 For the cube, the settings sometimes are not changed in the compiz file and must be done manually: Run gconf-editor (alt+f2) Change: /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/hsize: 4 and /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/number_of_desktops: 1 Thanks a lot for the tip, blindguardian72! =D

Ubuntu Tutorial for beginners. #1 Learn to: – Enable Special Effects – Enable Desktop Cube ** Using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS More info: – if you couldnt see or hear it the code i put in terminal was “ccsm” – the code after that was “sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager” Better quality video: www.mediafire.com

Let’s setup the desktop cube in Compiz Fusion, this quick video guide will help you learn! From CCSM under Desktop click to enable Desktop Cube… For the total text description, check out www.linuxhaxor.net