[ubuntu] Install Compiz Effects; Screensaver, Freewins, Atlantis2

[xfearxnxloathing]

This is once you've gotten compiz up, running and functional! UBUNTU Jaunty Jackalope

Step 1: Open Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install compiz-bcop compiz-dev build-essential libxcomposite-dev libpng12-dev libsm-dev libxrandr-dev libxdamage-dev libxinerama-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libgconf2-dev librsvg2-dev libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgnome-desktop-dev x11proto-scrnsaver-dev libxss-dev libxslt1-dev libtool libgl1-mesa-dev and libglu1-mesa-dev

(apparently you have to have dev stuff installed to use them..)

Step 2: Turn off Compiz! ((Compiz Switch) just for safety may work without doing so if you want to take a chance.)

Step 3: Create a folder to keep the plugin sources in: Open Terminal or type in same from above:

mkdir ~/compizplugins

then:

cd ~/compizplugins

Step 4: Download the plugin source code using git: Again with the terminal and type:

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

Step 5: Compile the individual plugins by switching to their directories and running make and make install: Terminal

cd ~/compizplugins/atlantis2
make
make install
cd ~/compizplugins/freewins
make
make install
cd ~/compizplugins/screensaver
make
make install

Step 6: Log out and back in to restart Compiz and your current session. Next make your way to compiz-settings-manager and look under: Extras (screensaver), Effects (Cube Atlantis & Freely Transformable Windows (freewins)).

[xfearxnxloathing]

some responses would be nice =P

work/doesn't work?!?!

[overdrank]

Moved to Desktop Environments

[xfearxnxloathing]

Originally Posted by overdrank Moved to Desktop Environments

sry =]

[sparazza]

It works!

For me the correct dependences are:
compiz-fusion-bcop instead of compiz-bcop and git-core

Sparazza

[jbryant]

Forgive a noob, but I'm getting an error when I try to make:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

[zcat]

Originally Posted by xfearxnxloathing some responses would be nice =P work/doesn't work?!?!

in the first apt-get install, compiz-bcop is now (jaunty) called compiz-fusion-bcop, and also might be an idea to put git-core in there as well so the next step works.

Also was the 'Auto Nice Daemon' package intended, or was that the word 'and' between the last two packages in the list? I've left it in because it does no harm..

As a single shell script (not tested yet but I hacked this up just now because I have several machines here and I'm lazy)

#!/bin/bash

sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-bcop compiz-dev build-essential libxcomposite-dev libpng12-dev libsm-dev libxrandr-dev libxdamage-dev libxinerama-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libgconf2-dev librsvg2-dev libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgnome-desktop-dev x11proto-scrnsaver-dev libxss-dev libxslt1-dev libtool libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev and git-core
mkdir ~/compizplugins && cd ~/compizplugins

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

cd ~/compizplugins/atlantis2 && make && make install
cd ~/compizplugins/freewins && make && make install
cd ~/compizplugins/screensaver && make && make install

[iPCGuy]

how to turn off compiz?

[xfearxnxloathing]

Originally Posted by iPCGuy how to turn off compiz?

System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager, type Compiz-Switch