http://blog.klaws.org/articles/2008/07/19/compiz-fusion-in-fedora-8 en-us 40 the intriguing Mr Crichton-Seager's blog <p>I switched to Fedora 7 a while back and as a Beryl user, I was glad to find that <a href="http://www.compiz-fusion.org/">Compiz Fusion</a> was included by default.</p> <p>After making sure I was using the latest nVidia graphics drivers, everything worked fine. But a lot of the plugins didn't seem to be installed - particularly Expo, a plugin that zooms out to shows you all your desktops at once and even allows you to move windows between them while zoomed out.</p> <p><img src="/files/expo.jpg" alt="Screenshot of Expo" title="Expo"/></p> <p>I worked out today that all the Beryl plugins <em>are</em> installed, but the control panel no longer gives to access to them.</p> <p>All the options are available in gconf-editor, under <strong>/apps/compiz</strong>. To enable a plugin, add its name to <strong>/apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins</strong>.</p> <p>I really don't know why the Fedora chaps haven't put in a friendly interface for this stuff, at least there doesn't seem to be one in the repos.</p> <p>I think this sort of eye candy is one of the things that could draw people from Windows to Linux, so let's not hide it!</p> <p>Note: I've since found the package that installs the GUI compiz setup tool. It's called <strong>ccsm</strong>, and can be installed from <em>Add/Remove Software</em>. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:18:00 +0000 urn:uuid:a8af6c1b-adf5-4360-9861-6e46e0a0e9b2 Kat Crichton http://blog.klaws.org/articles/2008/07/19/compiz-fusion-in-fedora-8 Linux http://blog.klaws.org/articles/trackback/73