Hi, as promised in the last post I'm going to talk about some Linux desktop effects that most common distributions include.
In my opinion, desktop effects are very cool! It's true that the most common user likes performance, but if that can by allied to presentation, why not? Not every effects are useful, and the majority of them don't bring nothing new in terms of features. But when you use them and see all those nice things moving around you really like it!
I use only compiz which is a tool that provides some plugins that bring you a new experience in Linux. I must say that after you get used to some of the effects like the one when you move the windows (you can see that in my videos) you actually feel strange when you use a system that doesn't have it.
The effect that most people probably know is the cube. Everyone talks about the cube and associate the latest version of ubuntu with it. This is a great effect that uses the feature of having available multiple desktops. Before using this effect I never used the feature of multiple desktops, so this is a case where an effect brought up a feature!
Enough talk, be sure to check out the video and that should get you going:
Cool isn't it?
And there are a lot of things to keep you going in compiz. And after you think you know everything, explore, and discover more cool things to make your desktop really amazing.
A good starting point should be desklets. A nice implementation of desklets is adesklets, be sure to check it out!
But don't think that to have a nice desktop you need to install extra software. You can always use themes to your desktop environment. A quick search on Google about Gnome or KDE themes gives you plenty of places to look for desktop beauties!
And if you want leave a screenshot or a video in the commentaries about your desktop I would like very much to see it!
In my opinion, desktop effects are very cool! It's true that the most common user likes performance, but if that can by allied to presentation, why not? Not every effects are useful, and the majority of them don't bring nothing new in terms of features. But when you use them and see all those nice things moving around you really like it!
I use only compiz which is a tool that provides some plugins that bring you a new experience in Linux. I must say that after you get used to some of the effects like the one when you move the windows (you can see that in my videos) you actually feel strange when you use a system that doesn't have it.
The effect that most people probably know is the cube. Everyone talks about the cube and associate the latest version of ubuntu with it. This is a great effect that uses the feature of having available multiple desktops. Before using this effect I never used the feature of multiple desktops, so this is a case where an effect brought up a feature!
Enough talk, be sure to check out the video and that should get you going:
Cool isn't it?
And there are a lot of things to keep you going in compiz. And after you think you know everything, explore, and discover more cool things to make your desktop really amazing.
A good starting point should be desklets. A nice implementation of desklets is adesklets, be sure to check it out!
But don't think that to have a nice desktop you need to install extra software. You can always use themes to your desktop environment. A quick search on Google about Gnome or KDE themes gives you plenty of places to look for desktop beauties!
And if you want leave a screenshot or a video in the commentaries about your desktop I would like very much to see it!
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