Apt get install compiz fusion

This document comes without warranty of any kind! I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

However dealing with Compiz may cause your graphic drivers to crash several times, before you even get it started , so be careful about what you do and backup everything you might need in future.

When I installed and configured Compiz on my machine I had to deal with several Unity crashes which a new Linux user probably cannot get around without help, therefore I will give you some commands and shortcuts that might spare you overusing your computer's reset button:. Don't let yourself discourage by error reports and stuff, you probably won't get around these. If you get error messages and Unity crashes, try to reboot and repeat your last steps - funny enough, I got error reports all the way through configuring CCSM and after some attempts everything just worked.

Take the warning that comes up serious! In the plugin's menu, make sure the Enable Ubuntu Unity Plugin checkbox is checked if it's not you would have most likely noticed it anyway. The launcher and everything would be gone then - if you had that problem from the start, open a terminal in the way described above and start ccsm by entering. Click Back to go back to the main menu. Check the Desktop Cube checkbox. The plugins are somewhat of a maze to get around at first, but they should quickly become easy to understand.

Troubleshooting Make sure that Composite extension is disabled. It doesn't work with restricted fgrlx driver. Some users complain that their window borders don't appear. I still haven't tracked down the exact problem but I have found that it occures in two instances. The first is when you set a setting that causes a conflict.

The best way to fix this seems to be just setting things back to default. The second is beyond me, but it seems to be fixable by first running metacity --replace then compiz --replace If all else fails, compiz-fusion on Freenode. Discuss this page. Compiz is the original compositing window manager. It works by using 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL to render. Providing intense immersing graphical effects on Gnome and KDE desktop environments.

The Beryl window manager was a fork of Compiz and had shown great success.