Ubuntu Eye Candy: Desktop Effects

So this is a tutorial about how to install some nifty desktop effects in ubuntu. Now under Preferences on the Menu there’s a tab for Advanced Desktop Effects Settings. In order to get this you need to install Compiz Manager. So open up a terminal window, and enter the following:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Once that’s been installed you can access the CompizConfig Settings Manager. You can go through and check off a bunch of different ones to give you some nifty eye candy.

Ubuntu Settings

When you go into one of the settings there will be a plethora of tabs for you to tweek the effects to the millimeter of how you want them to behave.

Effects Settings

CompizConfig Settings are an easy and quick way to install the Desktop Cube, Desktop wall, and the Expo which is identical to the Expo in Mac OS X.

Expo

There are also a plethora of effects for you to install.

Visual Effects

Hopefully this post is fairly helpful, it’s more indepth than most of the videos that I throw up on here, and I hope that everyone enjoys it.

How To Install Ubuntu Cube

In the vein of ultimate things that Ubuntu can do I’ve decided to show you these 2 videos, the first is more Eye Candy showing off the ultimate power of Ubuntu, the second is a short video about how to get a cube desktop working on your own Ubuntu Machine.