Desktop Effects on a MacBook?

[zyrone]

Hello,

I have a black MacBook (Intel Core 2 Duo) (Late 2007). I have 7.10 installed on it in the form of a Boot Camp partition, and I'm wondering if it's possible to enable desktop effects (and how). Whenever I try enabling either normal or whatever the other one is, I get a white screen for a moment and then a little dialog box that says that desktop effects could not be enabled.

I have seen videos on YouTube and similar of these effects running on a MacBook so I am pretty sure that this is possible. Could somebody please help me? Thanks in advance.

P.S. I tried to install Compiz-Fusion to see if it would work but after following all the steps I did not find the "Advanced Desktop Effects" thing in the Preferences menu.

[cyberdork33]

you need to make sure that 3d acceleration is working properly first...

[zyrone]

Yes, thank you. I've seen this tip before.

How do I do this? Do I need to do it from OSX (Leopard) or Ubuntu?

[joonyah]

Zy,

I have a MacBook 2,1 with 8.04 installed and I'm currently using the compiz-fusion effects. But I didn't do much other than installing the necessary files for compiz (i.e. compizconfig (http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/x11/compizconfig-settings-manager) link for gutsy package) maybe make sure you have the dependent packages installed as well. Also have you tried booting off a Live CD of 8.04 and installing the packages to see if maybe it's just 7.10?

Also, are you using Ubuntu with gnome, or Kubuntu with KDE?

-- jon

[zyrone]

Thank you! I have my MacBook up and running 8.04 now, and it works great.