Monthly Desktop – October ’08

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

HOWTO: Install Compiz-fusion from git

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.