Compiz "Guild" Fusion

Compiz "Guild" Fusion
First part of my experiments with Wine and Guild Wars under GNU/Linux (to be precise Mint and Ubuntu with Compiz Fusion), enjoy.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Guild
• Wars
• Wine
• Ubuntu
• Compiz
• Fusion
• podcastoro

[randomlaughingman]

Very nice! - what kind of graphics card & drivers do you have? - I was put off GUI-linuxes cause the Ubuntu I had wouldn't let me get drivers manually only by auto-installs online; they work on the 8600gt I have but I actually find it's not a fast enough card to run the window effects. Tried the 1st SUSE with KDE4 and it just died all the time, but I gather that's been sorted out now. D'you know any sites that list the best gpus for linux - to run say Ubuntu studio, Blender, that kind of thing?

[podcastoro]

Well, this video was a bit sloppy, old specs and old version of Compiz. Now I got a gpu like yours and things run smoothly, but it depends on the numbers of effects you activate, let alone the computer specs, I mean KDE is kind of hungry of resources (and now has its own effects), also Ubuntu or Suse are not exactly optimized. I prefer Archlinux ;-) Anyway, any recent card is fine really, just avoid the ones in the blacklist, check this out wiki(dot)compiz-fusion(dot)org­(slash)Hardware/Blacklist

[randomlaughingman]

I found it was too slow, even just dragging one window (with the jelly effect on - the Ubuntu I have (8.04 Hardy Heron, 32-bit) only has options to tick for 3 different levels of effect, it doesn't have all those specific-effect lists that can be enabled, like I've seen on Fedora).

I had gone to that webpage - but it is sparse by their own admission, it only lists a few cards not to use and none in the ok-list.

[podcastoro]

Give it a try with a live distro with Compiz activated by default such as Sabayon: ww w (dot)sabayon(dot)org, it runs booting it from the dvd drive an won't touch your hard disk (then if you like it you can always install it)

[podcastoro]

Cairo-dock, you can find it here:

developer(dot)berlios(dot)de(s­lash)projects(slash)cairo-dock

Enjoy!

[randomlaughingman]

I'll give that version a go - usually the live distros don't let you use any effects & need to be installed to see them working (that's one of the few linuxes I don't have on a live boot disk...).

[CharlesACarroll3]

what are you using for those animated icons at the bottom?