Howto: Install and use Luminocity (eye candy)

[poofyhairguy]

EDIT: because of the fact that I can't host the howto here without some of the lines adopting smiley faces, I posted it here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LuminocityHowTo

If you are like me, you probably like to have some eye candy and the Luminocity demos enticed you. All those effect look great, but what good are they if we have to wait years for the effect to get into Gnome?

I created this howto to help people like myself install Luminocity now in order to try out the new effects. It does alright on my Pentium 4 with an ATI card (newest fglrx drivers installed), but using a mouse wheel seems to make it crash (anyone got a work around?).

This is fun to play with (I really like the desktop switcher) but its not a functional window manager like Metacity. Its only to be looked at. So don't show this off to all your Window's buddies (unless you say "this is the future of Linux") because they will be disappointed when they switch to use it only to find out its basically a demo.

This howto was created by adding this Gentoo one to this wikipage:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...irefox&strip=1

[N'Jal]

Tempting, however will lumocity became the default window manager? If so i have to resist temptation since i need a roughly working system, and right now it's dying. Anything more coud kill it.

[poofyhairguy]

Tempting, however will lumocity became the default window manager?

No. It works within its own canvas...its more a cool tech demo that it is a new window manager.

[poofyhairguy]

Here is a screenshot of Luminocity running with Gxine playing a movie inside it while I move it around.

Neat stuff.

[poofyhairguy]

By... the way..I noticed that this makes the CPU on my Pentium 4 max out....so this might not be the thing for older systems.

A good link for it:

http://fishsoup.net/blog/2004/11/01/

[poofyhairguy]

Can someone try this and see if it works for more than me?

[keybreckaba]

sorry stupid ? but what is the smily supposed to be?

i am looking to try to try this out but just can't think of what it is thanks

[poofyhairguy]

sorry stupid ? but what is the smily supposed to be?

i am looking to try to try this out but just can't think of what it is thanks

Look at my edit for info.

[codejunkie]

Can someone try this and see if it works for more than me?

im working on it i let you know my results ps: thanks i've been wanting to try this for a while

[codejunkie]

when i try and install jhbuild with this command

cvs -d :pserver:[MAILTO] anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome get jhbuild cd jhbuild/ make make install

i get this error Unknown command: `anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome' i have never compiled from cvs before so could you tell a cvs newbie what he's doing wrong.