Compiz on Ubuntu 9.04 (on Asus U81A)

24/09/2009

After about a hour of tinkering I now have Compiz set up to my liking. If you happen to have read my previous (and very old) post about running Compiz on my Presario, I did it much the same. Actually, aside from not having to tinker with the install, it is the same. Ha.

For those that do not know what Compiz is, it is a desktop effect program. Tons of things are capable with it. If you would like to see it in action scroll on down and click the Youtube link.

Basically, for my Asus U81A, all I had to do was click Applications>Add/Remove, search for “compiz” and install the “Advance Dedsktop Effects Settings.” Before doing so, I did have to enable multiverse in Software Sources. And that was it.

I plan on adding a video, as soon as I find a desktop recorder for Ubuntu that I like. (Recommendations are cool!)

Update: Since I am having trouble recording my desktop without stutters and such, here is a youtube video showing off tons of the effects Compiz is capable of: “Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Beta with Compiz effects Test.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zoXquJdwMI

There are 5 comments in this article:

  1. 25/09/2009synxiec say:

    what does COMPIZ do?

  2. 25/09/2009Wasney say:

    Compiz is a desktop effect program. Here is a youtube video showing tons of the things you can do.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zoXquJdwMI

  3. 28/09/2009synxiec say:

    i got it installed, but don’t know how to set everything. i guess i’ll have to look it up.

  4. 28/09/2009synxiec say:

    figured it out :) cute stuff.

  5. 10/11/2009ai say:

    I have been trying hard for a while to configure the toucpad for this laptop with no success. Looks like the touchpad vendor is a company called Elantech.

    Without this the mouse pointer tends to click at times when you move the mouse.

    Did you have the same issue ? How did you solve it ?

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