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Lots of small cubes effect when closing windows

Pally

Tue May 22, 2012 9:18:17 pm

Got that thing in zorin OS, how do you get it into KDE with ubuntu 12.05 LTS? :))

madvinegar

Tue May 22, 2012 9:49:23 pm

You must install the compiz effects.
Open terminal and write
Code:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins-extra


Then go to dash to open "ccm".
Go to windows effects or effects - I do not remember exactly where - so as to choose the options for closing/minimizing/maximising windows, and alter them according to your preferences.
The specific effect you want is called "leaf-spread".

Maybe this guide will help you http://wiki.compiz.org/

Pally

Tue May 22, 2012 9:55:52 pm

madvinegar wrote:You must install the compiz effects.
Open terminal and write
Code:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins-extra


Then go to dash to open "ccm".
Go to windows effects or effects - I do not remember exactly where - so as to choose the options for closing/minimizing/maximising windows, and alter them according to your preferences.
The specific effect you want is called "leaf-spread".


Installed the command you gave me but still cant find leaf-spread anywhere, there are no windows effects, only decorations =[

madvinegar

Tue May 22, 2012 9:59:14 pm

Maybe is in compiz fusion..
Open terminal and install this package as well

Code:
sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-plugins-extra

Pally

Tue May 22, 2012 10:04:37 pm

madvinegar wrote:Maybe is in compiz fusion..
Open terminal and install this package as well

Code:
sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-plugins-extra

Still cant find it...

madvinegar

Tue May 22, 2012 10:19:30 pm

You open ccm, you go to "effects", you enable "animations" by ticking the box next to it and then you click on "animations" so as to open the option tabs.

You will see that each tab is named "close animation", "open animation", "maximize animation" etc. For each tab you choose from the list below which animation you like.

Pally

Tue May 22, 2012 10:25:57 pm

madvinegar wrote:You open ccm, you go to "effects", you enable "animations" by ticking the box next to it and then you click on "animations" so as to open the option tabs.

You will see that each tab is named "close animation", "open animation", "maximize animation" etc. For each tab you choose from the list below which animation you like.


Yes, but there is no leaf-spread for some reason

madvinegar

Wed May 23, 2012 9:34:44 pm

Swarf he is not using zorin. He is using ubuntu 12.04 and he just likes the "leaf spread" animation (which is default in zorin 5) when closing a window.

Apparently, even if he has installed compizconfig settings manager plus the extras, there is no option in animations for leaf spread...

I will look in my zorin laptop to see what packages are installed for compiz...

Pally

Thu May 24, 2012 12:10:05 pm

Thanks guys, i appreciate this :) !

madvinegar

Thu May 24, 2012 2:28:50 pm

I opened my synaptics package manager and in search I wrote "compiz".

These are the packages that have been installed:

compiz
compiz-fusion-plugins-main
compiz-plugins
compizconfig-backened-gconf
compiz-core
compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported
compiz-gnome
compizconfig-settings-manager
python-compizconfig
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
libdecoration0
simple-ccsm
screenlets

Wolfman

Thu May 24, 2012 3:53:59 pm

If you didn't directly install a KDE version of Ubuntu and did it as an afterthought, you might want to install the package "kde-full" if it isn't already installed!!.

Regards Wolfman :D