about 3d and transparent desktop?

[Abhinav Gupta]

Those effects come with Compiz. Its installed by default in all
distributions Gutsy Gibbon ( 7.04 ) onwards. You can enable it by right
clicking the desktop, choosing Change Desktop Background > Visual Effects.
You will probably see 3 options here - None, Normal and Extra.
To get the effects, you may choose either Normal or Extra but that doesn't
give you the 3D cubes. For that you need to install another package -
compizconfig-settings-manager. Just do a "sudo apt-get install
compizconfig-settings-manager" in the terminal and you will have it. Then go
to System > Prefereces > CompizConfig Settings Manager. There you can
configure the 3D effects. The "Desktop Cube" option needs to be enabled to
get what you want. Play around with it.

Abhinav

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:44 AM, loody <miloody at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all:
> I use gnome as my windows manager.
> But almost 2 years ago, I saw my friend show me some magic 3d and
> transparent desktop on linux system.
> We can switch desktop like a cubic and it is more fascinated than visa.
>
> I have no idea whether the window manager is kde or gnome.
> If I want to have the same thing happen on my ubuntu, what package I
> should apt-get?
> Does my HWs need to upgrate?
> appreciate your help,
> miloody
>
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