Ubuntu Desktop Effects

solarwind · 2008-09-08 20:58:59

Hey all,

You know how Ubuntu has their "desktop effects" in the appearance menu? Is it possible to get that for Gnome in Arch Linux? I don't want to go all out and install compiz fusion. I also like their configuration.

voteforpedro36 · 2008-09-08 21:02:02

solarwind wrote:

Hey all,
You know how Ubuntu has their "desktop effects" in the appearance menu? Is it possible to get that for Gnome in Arch Linux? I don't want to go all out and install compiz fusion. I also like their configuration.

Compiz Fusion is what powers those Desktop Effects.

solarwind · 2008-09-08 21:05:25

voteforpedro36 wrote:

solarwind wrote:
Hey all,
You know how Ubuntu has their "desktop effects" in the appearance menu? Is it possible to get that for Gnome in Arch Linux? I don't want to go all out and install compiz fusion. I also like their configuration.
Compiz Fusion is what powers those Desktop Effects.

Is there any way to get that configuration?

floke · 2008-09-08 21:24:06

Install compiz and edit the settings through the ccsm (compiz config settings manager)
Export your settings in Ubuntu and import them to Arch for the easy way.

X/ax · 2008-09-08 21:32:30

solarwind wrote:

voteforpedro36 wrote:
solarwind wrote:
Hey all,
You know how Ubuntu has their "desktop effects" in the appearance menu? Is it possible to get that for Gnome in Arch Linux? I don't want to go all out and install compiz fusion. I also like their configuration.
Compiz Fusion is what powers those Desktop Effects.
Is there any way to get that configuration?

Install ubuntu...

solarwind · 2008-09-08 21:43:06

X/ax wrote:

Install ubuntu...

If you want to be a smartass, do it somewhere else, don't hijack my thread.

Last edited by solarwind (2008-09-08 21:43:37)

haxit · 2008-09-08 22:02:16

When you install compiz fusion, the menu with all the effects of configs should come with it.

moljac024 · 2008-09-08 22:19:02

I believe that to be an Ubuntu developed app. Therefore, the smartass was right - Install Ubuntu

finferflu · 2008-09-08 22:24:52

Come on, I don't think there's any need for such statements like "install Ubuntu".
We all know that Ubuntu customises applications, so where's the problem if one want a particular modded application? In the AUR we even have the Ubuntu fonts.

I don't see the need for flaming here, if there ever was a need for flaming at all.

haxit · 2008-09-08 22:25:38

Lol. Well that is always a solution. Ubuntu just makes it easier for the linux user. So if you want it easy, get ubuntu, but if you are not willing to go down without a fight and change up your habits, arch ftw, eh?

.:B:. · 2008-09-08 22:34:34

I agree. Want your system to work like on Ubuntu? Get Ubuntu. Spare yourself the trouble.

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solarwind · 2008-09-08 22:42:02

B wrote:

I agree. Want your system to work like on Ubuntu? Get Ubuntu. Spare yourself the trouble.

Wow, some of you guys really suck. All I ask is how to get the same type of effects as Ubuntu and all I get is "Install Ubuntu", as if I didn't know that already. It's obvious why I'm posting here. I'm on Arch Linux and plan to stay on Arch Linux. Quite stupid posting "Use Ubuntu" to someone getting used to Arch Linux.

solarwind · 2008-09-08 22:43:08

finferflu wrote:

Come on, I don't think there's any need for such statements like "install Ubuntu".
We all know that Ubuntu customises applications, so where's the problem if one want a particular modded application? In the AUR we even have the Ubuntu fonts.
I don't see the need for flaming here, if there ever was a need for flaming at all.

Thank you. I'll try to somehow pull the configs off my Ubuntu system (if I can find them), should be in there with the source packages.

moljac024 · 2008-09-08 22:47:23

We're really saying that the particular application in question is developed by Ubuntu developers and is not used in other distributions of linux. If you really want it, you should ask on the Ubuntu forums about how you could obtain it.

EDIT: I suppose you would get the same response if you asked on the Fedora forums about netcfg....

Last edited by moljac024 (2008-09-08 22:48:17)

Lord Illidan · 2008-09-08 22:49:12

There definitely should be a way to get the source code and make a package out of it. If we can do it with their font system, why not with this, too?

voteforpedro36 · 2008-09-08 23:07:59

solarwind wrote:

voteforpedro36 wrote:
solarwind wrote:
Hey all,
You know how Ubuntu has their "desktop effects" in the appearance menu? Is it possible to get that for Gnome in Arch Linux? I don't want to go all out and install compiz fusion. I also like their configuration.
Compiz Fusion is what powers those Desktop Effects.
Is there any way to get that configuration?

"sudo pacman -S compiz ccsm"

Although if you are talking about the window that says "None, Normal, Extra, and custom" I dunno. But ccsm (compiz config settings manager) let's you select whatever options you want to use with compiz.

X/ax · 2008-09-08 23:17:17

My apologies for the "smartass comment", but I couldn't help it.
Please don't let this topic become a flame, as it would be my fault, and I wouldn't want that.

As for the menu thingy, it's indeed ubuntu code, that's all I know, and all I knew, I think anyone telling you to install compiz (and go through the hassle) is closest to the solution you want.
In the end, once you configured something, there's no real need for change, is there? So why keep everything in menus, when you barely use 10% of those menus

solarwind · 2008-09-08 23:27:41

X/ax wrote:

My apologies for the "smartass comment", but I couldn't help it.
Please don't let this topic become a flame, as it would be my fault, and I wouldn't want that.
As for the menu thingy, it's indeed ubuntu code, that's all I know, and all I knew, I think anyone telling you to install compiz (and go through the hassle) is closest to the solution you want.
In the end, once you configured something, there's no real need for change, is there? So why keep everything in menus, when you barely use 10% of those menus

Thank you. I will install it and try to get it as close as i can.

Oxyd · 2008-09-08 23:51:47

Lord Illidan wrote:

There definitely should be a way to get the source code and make a package out of it. If we can do it with their font system, why not with this, too?

Why, yes there is.

Lord Illidan · 2008-09-09 05:00:35

Oxyd wrote:

Lord Illidan wrote:
There definitely should be a way to get the source code and make a package out of it. If we can do it with their font system, why not with this, too?
Why, yes there is.

That's old, though. What the OP specified should be in the Appearances menu. I believe MacSlow programmed another tab into it, with this Desktop Effects menu.

finferflu · 2008-09-09 12:16:08

Look into the gnome-control-center package, it contains gnome-appearence-properties.

alex_anthony · 2008-09-12 19:17:21

Simple CCSM will give you the "custom" section that you can get on that tab.
For the others, I'm sure someone on the ubuntu forums would export them for you so you could import them into ccsm

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