Beautiful! I remember my Ubuntu 10.10 with compiz fusion… It was gorgeous. Good old days
Nice! I still have wobbly windows to this day! :)
Really? With what tools?
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.
The cube is planned to be reintroduced in KDE 6
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.)
Awesome!
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 😂RIP, did you ever get that sorted out?
Compiz was too intense for my computers back in the day and I honestly haven’t tried since
It seems like it is not too late for you.
Haha nice! I think I am still running X because my dock didn’t want my monitors to show up on Wayland, but I’m hoping when the next Ubuntu lts comes out I can switch!
GNOME has extensions that can bring these kinds of effects back:
- https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4648/desktop-cube/
- https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/
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).
Shh. We don’t talk about those days.
Why not? I forgot how much I loved compiz
Because we also don’t talk about the hairstyles we wore in the 80s
That’s fair I guess lol.
Still though, kind of neat 😁