Do you know what is compiz? What about the effect window manager for your Gnome Linux or Ubuntu system? It comes with your Ubuntu installation and adds fancy effects to your windows and desktop for better and more fun user experience. Now you know. But that’s not all. Compiz is complete rewritten an it is evolving daily into more stable, more future based and less hardware hungry engine, so if you want to test it and improve it with your feedbacks you can install the latest version and contribute for a better final product.

Note: This is unstable version and you can install it for testing from a PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unity/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install compiz

If you run into troubles, you can reinstall the stable version of compiz with copy/paste – line by line in terminal:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo apt-get remove –purge compiz
sudo apt-get autoremove –purge
sudo apt-get clean

Then remove PPA repository and finally reinstall:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:unity/ppa
sudo apt-get install compiz

Have fun while testing the new Compiz.

Tags | Graphic, Linux, Open Source, Software, Ubuntu, Video