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Karmic Compiz Christmas with Snow Plugin for Ubuntu 9.10
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I added the snow plugin for Compiz in Ubuntu 9.10 (64bit), then changed my background, skydome and caps for the desktop cube. I feel all festive now. woo hoo, nog!

No, I don't see that flicker on my screen, the screen capture program just has a few hiccups when I capture.

There is a perfectly good how-to for the snow plugin online HERE

And I have a how-to on installing and enabling compiz here

Karmic Compiz Koala! Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Effects
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Very glad to report the flicker is gone when I capture video! w00t!

HOW TO GET COMPIZ DESKTOP EFFECTS RUNNING IN UBUNTU:

1.) Make sure you have a 3-D driver enabled, if you use ATI or Nvidia go into System > Administration > Hardware Drivers to detect your graphic/video card and install the driver.

2.) Once that's done you need to install CompizConfig Settings Manager and some plugins. To do so open a terminal and enter in:

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

Close the terminal when that's done.

3.) To enable Visual Effects go to System > Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects and select Extra.

(It is not required, but I recommend rebooting at this point, especially if something isn't working yet)

4.) To select which effects to use, go into System > Preferences > CompizConfig Settings Manager and check the boxed for what you want to use, you can't just click everything, there would be incompatibilities if you did that. For the famous Desktop Cube, you have to enable Desktop Cube AND Cube Rotation as well as 3D Windows to get the usual desired effect. Selecting Cube Reflection and Deformation will give you the cylindrical shape instead of the cube.


Keyboard Shortcuts are available here:
http://wiki.compiz.org/CommonKeyboardShortcuts

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