[HOWTO]: Extra Compiz Plugins

[wwuster]

I ran the script and saw a message go by about cairo-xlib not being found in one of the Makefiles. But most of it seems to have installed. I thought I'd see what 'snow cube' does but can't figure out how to turn it on. If I bring up 'water effect' I see what keys toggle it on and off. How can I connect some keys to the snow cube to see it?

William

[Blasphemer]

I will give this a spin. Thanks you

[damis648]

I ran the script and saw a message go by about cairo-xlib not being found in one of the Makefiles. But most of it seems to have installed. I thought I'd see what 'snow cube' does but can't figure out how to turn it on. If I bring up 'water effect' I see what keys toggle it on and off. How can I connect some keys to the snow cube to see it?

William

About the "cairo-xlib" message, this means that Freewins failed to install. If you would like freewins, run the following in terminal:

sudo apt-get install libcairo2 libcairo2-dev libcairomm-1.0-1 libcairo-perl libcairo-ruby1.8 libglitz1 libmono-cairo1.0-cil libmono-cairo2.0-cil libpixman-1-0 libpixman-1-dev python-cairo

and then re-run the script. I will add these packages to the next script.
As far as the snow cube, that is the snowglobe plugin and is seen when rotating the desktop cube with transparency on.

[damis648]

I am posting version 4 of the script that should fix any issues about errors regarding cairo-xlib errors.

[prshah]

create regular file `/home/kaneda/.compiz/plugins/libatlantis.so': Permission denied
install : /home/kaneda/.compiz/plugins/libfreewins.soinstall: cannot create regular file `/home/kaneda/.compiz/plugins/libfreewins.so': Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 1

Looks to me that you already have a ~/.compiz directory/file (why?) to confirm, post output of

ls -ld ~/.compiz
ls -l ~/.compiz

(The first command may give an error if .compiz is not a directory).

[Teddy_P]

I did it and it worked great. Very cool.
I used the compizplugins4.sh

Thank you
Teddy

[colter13]

I'm very new to linux and and I don't know how to get this to install. Can you please give me instructions on how to get this to work?

[Kaneda187]

Check the start of the post, I asked the same question!

dont forget to say thanks

[damis648]

I'm very new to linux and and I don't know how to get this to install. Can you please give me instructions on how to get this to work?

Ha good point . Just right click it, go to permissions, and select executable for all users and groups or check the "allow executing as a program, whichever you see depending on you config. Now just double click the file and select "run in terminal" and that should do it!

[easybake]

Worked perfect. Is there any way you could add the new cube deform and cube reflection. I've tried to get the sphere deformation other ways with no luck.