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Topic: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

But your only on an Openbox setup???

Well fret no more ! Because here is a guide to teach you how to get your favorite effects on good ole CrunchBang, assuming your computer has the guts big_smile.

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No Composite Required
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3ddesktop - Desktop Cube
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Website
http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/

Source
http://sourceforge.net/projects/desk3d/ … z/download

Deb (alien)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KQ7VBWLG

1) Download the Deb/source

2) Install it

3) Set the desired number of desktops (in my case 4)

4) In terminal run 3ddesk --acquire (it will cycle through all of your dektops to get there images)

5) Edit your rc.xml file in your Openbox config for the key board shortcut you wanna use.

In My Case:

   <keybind key="C-A-Left">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>3ddesk --gotoleft</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-Right">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>3ddesk --gotoright</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

Then get to your cube loving xD.

Screen (its smooth when actually used)
http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/images/seq1.gif

To get auto starting, add these lines

(sleep 5s && 3ddesk) &
(sleep 20s && 3ddesk --acquire) &


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xdesktopwaves - Ripple Effects
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This is really easy actually. Its a simple aptitude/apt-get install away.

sudo aptitude install xdesktopwaves

or

sudo apt-get install xdesktopwaves

once that's done installing, run 

man xdesktopwaves

in terminal to get the config options and set it up to your liking.


My config is this

xdesktopwaves -q 8 -wc darkgrey -sc white -lc grey -r -nww -mo 2

To have it auto start create a bash script with you config in it and set it up in your openbox auto start like this.

(sleep 4s && ~/path to script.sh) &

And that handles ripple effects.

Video
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php … p;comments



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Skippy-XD - Expose Effect
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Website
http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.html

Source
http://cdn.thegraveyard.org/releases/sk … .0.tar.bz2

Deb (alien)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=09ETPCNS

1) Download the Deb

2) Install it

3) Download this skippy-xd.rc and place it in your username directory.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X4G4BP40

4) alt+F2 and type

skippy-xd

and that's it skippy is done, in that rc its key its mapped to is F1

To have it auto start, add this line to your autostart.sh

(sleep 2s && skippy-xd) &



All of this is done on a system that i personally don't use a composite manager on. There for my experience is strictly non-composite.




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RPM Sources
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All RPM's i converted came from RPMbone, i used it a lot when i was on fedora because it was the second source to RPM fusion people suggested.

Last edited by psyco430404 (2011-07-19 22:28:53)

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  • Istvan
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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

Thnx, I tryed Skippy already, but until now have not found deb for Skippy-xd.

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

No problem man, had to use alien to make it but its here.

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  • Awebb
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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

Nice thread. I have a few inqueries though.

1. You should add the name of your cube application more clearly. Is it 3ddesk?
2. Before you alienate a rpm to a deb, try building it from source. It is not that hard (thanks to checkinstall).
3. I would not trust your alienated deb, because I don't know where the rpm came from in the first place. It would make people feel more secure if they knew where that stuff comes from.

Good compilation btw. I didn't know 3ddesk.

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  • From: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

Alright i edited, the bolded text is the Application name, i apologize for the confusion.

I tried building many times, alot of these are completed old projects, so when ever i would make i would always get a ton of errors. Like skippy was completely broken for me so i had to alien, tho i understand what you mean. Same goes for 3ddesktop, just would not build for me, idk what i was missing other wise i wouldn't have converted the rpms hmm.

Thank you for your suggestions btw, im not that new to linux, but im a bit new to forums. ^_^

Last edited by psyco430404 (2011-07-19 16:06:42)

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  • Awebb
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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

You'll adapt :-)

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

OMG, install deb from megaupload.com hmm roll mad

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

That's like eating camembert directly out of the fridge, isn't it?

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

~HP wrote:

OMG, install deb from megaupload.com hmm roll mad

I apologize, that's just the file host i used hmm, sorry. And i promise you the debs are fine (that may not mean much), but this is how i installed them on my computer and got everything set up.

Last edited by psyco430404 (2011-07-19 22:11:27)

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  • ~HP
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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

Awebb wrote:

That's like eating camembert directly out of the fridge, isn't it?

No, it's like to fuck a bitch without condom! wink

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

Since debs were deemed unsafe, I've also linked to source, i apologize for the inconvenience if any.

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

~HP wrote:

No, it's like to fuck a bitch without condom! wink

With "fuck" you mean "live in" and with "bitch" you mean that town close to the German border, do you?

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

~HP wrote:
Awebb wrote:

That's like eating camembert directly out of the fridge, isn't it?

No, it's like to f*** a bitch without condom! wink

Hey, what you do with stray dogs is none of our business. yikes

This is supposed to be a family-friendly forum...please try to exercise some restraint.

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  • Istvan
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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

If someone wants  to try Skippy,  can get it from the Ubuntu Dapper repos. Unfortunately not Skippy-xd, but only Skippy, the one that use imlib. It is safe, and works despite being an obsolete package. But...it's slow and resource hungry.
Khmmm...I tried skippy-xd linked above. Works fine, needs minimal resources.and it is much faster.
Compiling from sources did not succeeded to me, 'make' aborts with several errors.

As far as I remember 3ddesktop can be found in the Ubuntu repos too.

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

Glad my skippy-xd deb works for you big_smile, just so you know, you can enable live updating in the rc file, i have it disabled tho because of how low end my system is.

Last edited by psyco430404 (2011-07-20 07:50:56)

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  • Istvan
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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

psyco430404 wrote:

Glad my skippy-xd deb works for you big_smile, just so you know, you can enable live updating in the rc file, i have it disabled tho because of how low end my system is.

Help me pls,where can I find the default rc . I downloaded the source package, and grabbed the skippy-xd.rc from there, but perhaps you have a different one.

Ha ezt el tudod olvasni, biztosan nem vagy rövidlátó.
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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

Istvan wrote:
psyco430404 wrote:

Glad my skippy-xd deb works for you big_smile, just so you know, you can enable live updating in the rc file, i have it disabled tho because of how low end my system is.

Help me pls,where can I find the default rc . I downloaded the source package, and grabbed the skippy-xd.rc from there, but perhaps you have a different one.

alright man, its called

.skippy-xd.rc

its located in your home folder. Ive got mine posted on the skippy section.

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  • Istvan
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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

Thx man, I must be blind:-)

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

its cool, no big deal, enjoy skippy xD

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

Hey!... I wonder if enabling that stuff would make my booting process slower, because I am looking for a super fast boot (already use e4rat and my startup time is 20s)

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Re: Wanting Compiz Eye Candy?

Your boot time measured by most boot time measure tools will not be affected by this. If you feel a difference depends on where you put it in your autostart and also on your hardware. Considering the fact that this is just a small deb with no uncommon dependencies, you can answer that for yourself by trying it.

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