Compiz Fusioneffects

debian debiani386 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 22:33:22 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 13:53 +0000, Lee Tambiah wrote:
> On 11/1/07, debian <debiani386 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey all
> >
> > I upgraded to ubuntu 7.10 and got all the compiz fusion stuff working.
> > Now im wondering how to get the window borders to be blurred. What i
> > mean is that i want them to blur the portion of the desktop they are
> > over (kinda like windows vistas shower glass effect (sorry i just had to
> > give you a glimpse of what i was talking about)).
> >
> > TIA
> > --cj
> 
> You need emerald and an emerald theme for the glass effects you
> require. Install emerald by issuing in the terminal:-
> 
> sudo apt-get install emerald
> 
> I not totally sure but I believe you can get a handful of themes by:-
> 
> sudo apt-get install emerald-themes (HOWEVER I Haven't tried that), as
> I am at work at current and have no Ubuntu Machine :- ( to check.
> 
> You can also install themes from GNOME LOOK:-
> 
> http://www.gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=103&PHPSESSID=2efe6b322e9d9fef4e6a0fea31525cdc
> 
> Or beryl site:-
> 
> http://themes.beryl-project.org/themes.php
> 
> Regards
> 
> L. Tambiah
> 
ok so i have emerald installed and i set the "Compiz Decoration Blur
Type" to "All decoration" and i havent seen any difference. i tried the
other setting (Title bar only) with the same results.

what am i doing wrong?

--cj





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