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I would be starting a new category where I would be posting my Desktop for every month.

Here is mine for October

Theme details:

Metacity Theme – Clearlooks

Window Borders – Compiz

Compiz version 0.7.8

Compiz Fusion is going places since its existance. Offlate it has become awesome.

Here is a tutorial to compile the latest compiz from git.

First, see here if it is safe to run compiz-git.

Getting Git

sudo apt-get install git git-core

Getting Compiz-git

wget http://jobcalls.in/adi/compiz-git.tar.gz

tar xzf compiz-git.tar.gz

chmod -R 777 compiz-git

You should now have a directory called compiz-git in your home-directory

Install compiz from git

cd compiz-git

./compiz-git install

Update compiz from git

cd compiz-git

./compiz-git update

Running compiz-fusion

fusion-icon
OR Run Compiz Fusion Icon (in your menu)

Uninstall compiz from git (which you would never do )

cd compiz-git

./compiz-git uninstall

cd ..

rm -r compiz-git

New feature

Cube Deformation

What do you get after doing all these ??

Sphere

cylinder

and lots more. Will update soon.

Enjoy Compiz. Special thanks to Martijn Bastiaan. Read the rest of this entry »