Get plugins (3d,snow,atlantis..) working in Gutsy

[Onay]

Woo first script here it goes...

I made a simple script that allows you to install some plugins not in Compiz 0.6.1 (the one that came with Gutsy Gibbon 7.10). It will allow you to get the following plugins working.

- 3d windows: Windows jump off cube when rotating
- Atlantis2: Fish, sharks, and dolphins swim inside your cube
- Anaglyph: For use with 3d glasses
- Freewins: Rotate windows freely
- Photowheel: Mini cube inside your desktop cube to display pictures
- Screensaver: Random effects to use as a screensaver
- Snow: Have snow fall

Note that this requires you to have all correct graphics card drivers installed and a working compiz fusion install that comes with Gutsy. Some plugins (i.e. snow) require an extra step to get them working, or may involve some disclaimers after installed.

Just download the tar and untar it to your desktop or home folder. Then do the following command

cd plugins
sudo chmod 755 plugins.sh

to change to it's directory. Then to use it just do

./plugins.sh

Let me know what else I can add/install

All information has been taken from
http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=5303

[nicesocks]

i appreciate this, however...

i'm not able to download your tar file. any help there?
and don't even get me started on that other page you link in the bottom of your post. i tried what they explained and was horribly lost.

can you tell i'm green? ^_^v

[Onay]

Are you using firefox? You should just be able to click on it to download it, then I can explain what to do afterwords.

After you download it, most likely to your desktop if you have everything set the way it comes, then you just right click on the file and click "Extract Here". There should be a folder that appears on your desktop called "plugins".

In your terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) type in the following code, line by line, pressing enter between each line to execute that command...

cd ~/Desktop/plugins
sudo chmod 755 plugins.sh

In that code you change directories to the one you extracted, then you make the shell file executable.

Hope that helps. Any other feedback would be great.

[mikedomo]

thanks very much i will publish in many forums about ubuntu i have..

[Eion]

Worked like a charm! Thanks!

[Znort_Ubern00b]

will they work with feisty...am really new to this and don't want to mess anything up...

[maxfact]

@onay

yuor script is fantastic
yuo are the my friends
very very good job

[andref]

very, very nice script

thanks so much!


mmm, and for unistall some plugins?

[Znort_Ubern00b]

it doesn't work...nothing has happened at all followed your instructions to T but nothing...

[Onay]

Uninstall script? I can probably do that...

Here's what you need to do to uninstall any of them

Using 3d windows as an example

cd ~/compiz/3d
sudo make uninstall

Here's the folder names for the plugins that you'd change out with [b]3d[b]

- Atlantis2: atlantis2-0.6
- Anaglyph: anaglyph-0.6
- Freewins: freewins-0.3-0.6
- Photowheel: photowheel
- Screensaver: screensaver
- Snow: snow
- Autumn: cd .autumn

This is intended for the 0.6.1 install of Gutsy's Compiz. I'm upgrading compiz right now to 0.6.2 and seeing if the plugins still work.