Install Compiz Effects; Screensaver, Freewins, Atlantis2

[xfearxnxloathing]

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all you need to do is check this link out
http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=12012
do not go below this line
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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]

Moved to Desktop Environments

sry =]

[sparazza]

It works!\\:D/

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]

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]

how to turn off compiz?

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

[jsearles]

I did everything suggested above and this is the error:

Makefile:48: *** [ERROR] Compiz not installed. Stop.

Can anyone help?

[skod_alf]

install the compiz-dev package. then it will work

[aviramof]

the first command should be fixed to:

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 and libglu1-mesa-dev

[xfearxnxloathing]

the first command should be fixed to:

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 and libglu1-mesa-dev


thank you ;]

[ethan1701]

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

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

I too am getting this error when trying to compile Freewins (Am not interested in and have not tried the others)
After fetching the files with git, the files I see in the freewins directory are:
AUTHORS
CMakeLists.txt
COPYING
freewins.xml.in
src (a directory)

there doesn't seem to be a make file. Is this presently missing from the repository?

-Ethan

[nick_goodfate]

I too am getting this error when trying to compile Freewins (Am not interested in and have not tried the others)
After fetching the files with git, the files I see in the freewins directory are:
AUTHORS
CMakeLists.txt
COPYING
freewins.xml.in
src (a directory)

there doesn't seem to be a make file. Is this presently missing from the repository?

-Ethan

i m getting the same error :( pls some help...

[realzippy]

Cannot help you with that compiling problem....but
there is an easy way to install all compiz plugins (freewins included;
just tested,it works):

http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=12012

[nick_goodfate]

Cannot help you with that compiling problem....but
there is an easy way to install all compiz plugins (freewins included;
just tested,it works):

http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=12012

:o thank you so much !!!

[ericshaw.linux]

when i run: git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/users/metastability/atlantis2
i get this output:

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/snake/compizplugins/atlantis2/.git/
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

please help i just want sum fishes in my cube..

[xfearxnxloathing]

Cannot help you with that compiling problem....but
there is an easy way to install all compiz plugins (freewins included;
just tested,it works):

http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=12012

it's been a few years, this def needed updating, thank you! =]

[Mi11z]

Thanks i've bookmarked that link, really helpful and for futture reference ! :)