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Compiz Fusion

Erik

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Compiz Fusion allows you to use advanced desktop effects such as the rotating cube desktop and some other pretty appealing eye candy.

sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra emerald librsvg2-common fusion-icon

Then run Applications -> System Tools -> Compiz Fusion Icon. A blue icon will appear to the tray. From here you can configure Compiz-Fusion.

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  • Viromike on Sunday, April 4, 2010

    I am not going to be original this time, so all I am going to say that your blog rocks, sad that I don’t have suck a writing skills

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