Repeat these steps for all the other animations you want to change. Compiz Fusion aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness. To change the window animations follow these steps:ĭouble clcik on the animation name under Open Effect To enable Wobbly Windows follow these steps: You can disable this warning by clicking on the check box followed by clicking on the OK button.Ĭhange Horizontal Virtual Size from 1 to 4 When installed you can close the terminal window and to start ccsm open click on the Dash Home button and search for: ccsmĪt first start up you will get a warning message that CCSM is an advanced tool and that you should use it with caution. Sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins-extra -y To install the CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM) and the extra plugins open a terminal window (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy+paste the following line: CCSM uses the CompizConfig compiz configuration system. It is used to configure the many plugins included in Compiz and Compiz Fusion, as well as the use of various profiles and intergrating better with existing desktop settings. Consider the issue of weight once Compiz seems to be working correctly. Please note that when enabling the cube and wobbly windows compiz will freeze for a while, this is normal so don’t panic!! If you end up without any window borders just restart your system and all will be normal again and the effects will still work.ĬCSM, short for CompizConfig Settings Manager, is a configuration tool for Compiz Fusion. Should you still have difficulties, and then try sudo apt-cache policy compiz-fusion-plugins-extra to make sure that the apt-get software is finding the repositories properly.
This guide also show you how to enable the cube, wobbly windows and change the window effects in a few steps. Here is a guide to install the CompizConfig Setting Manager and some extra plugins on Ubuntu 13.04.