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[–] 17 points 2 years ago

Beautiful! I remember my Ubuntu 10.10 with compiz fusion.. It was gorgeous. Good old days

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Bring back compiz!!!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nice! I still have wobbly windows to this day! :)

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I use KDE and it has desktop effects built in. One of them is wobbly windows, which I always enable. It has animations for switching virtual desktops too, but I don't see the cube around anymore, maybe it needs to be installed separately.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Cube will return with Plasma 6: https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/27/these-past-2-weeks-in-kde-wayland-color-management-the-desktop-cube-returns-and-optional-shadows-in-spectacle/

    (They had removed it, because it was difficult to maintain. Now it's been rewritten, using a new Desktop Effects API.)

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not OP, but Wayfire has all the old-school effects plus some new ones too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2MR7Qh9ECE

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You should be taking a screenshot of your desktop, not taking a picture of it at a weird angle.

    Wait a minute.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wanted to have a computer fast enough to run that so bad back in the early 00's.
    On my PC at the time I would get single digit frames when those animations played 😂

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    RIP, did you ever get that sorted out?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Compiz was too intense for my computers back in the day and I honestly haven't tried since

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    My octagon from 2008, I had forgot all about this!

    Edit: sorry for the potato quality, these are screen caps from a video I uploaded to YouTube, which is only available at 360p.

    I didn't link the video because it shows my web browser open with plenty of doxxing information, I wasn't very bright back then.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Shh. We don't talk about those days.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why not? I forgot how much I loved compiz

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    GNOME has extensions that can bring these kinds of effects back:

    The easiest way to set these up is to use the "Extension Manager" app (available on Flathub) and search for "cube" and "burn" (and install each).

    https://flathub.org/apps/com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @kratoz29 The linux desktop on a LSD screen

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I've invested so much time into tweaking compiz just to always switch windows/desktops via shortcuts.

    But iirc wobbly windows back then were available only via compiz.

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