Beautiful! I remember my Ubuntu 10.10 with compiz fusion… It was gorgeous. Good old days
Bring back compiz!!!
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!
Amazing, I never stayed that much with KDE, IDK why it just didn’t click with me.
Not OP, but Wayfire has all the old-school effects plus some new ones too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2MR7Qh9ECE
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=a2MR7Qh9ECE
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
This looks so cool.
You should be taking a screenshot of your desktop, not taking a picture of it at a weird angle.
Wait a minute.
This was the “VR/AR” of my younger days.
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!
Shh. We don’t talk about those days.
I miss those days (งツ)ว
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 😁
My octagon from 2008, I had forgot all about this!
Edit: sorry for the potato quality, these are screen caps from a video I uploaded to YouTube, which is only available at 360p.
I didn’t link the video because it shows my web browser open with plenty of doxxing information, I wasn’t very bright back then.
@kratoz29 The linux desktop on a LSD screen
Linux and LSD merged? What a crazy mix.
I’ve invested so much time into tweaking compiz just to always switch windows/desktops via shortcuts.
But iirc wobbly windows back then were available only via compiz.
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).
