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3D Windows, Cube Atlantis and more effects for Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu Feisty


When I looked at others screenshot posted on the web I noticed that some have window float off the cube when rotating. I love it and looking for what effect to do like that. Someone on ubuntuforums said "just enable 3D windows effect" but my "compizconfig setting manager" didn't has that effect to enable :(. or others said "it's for beryl only" that hard to believe. I try to search for plugin package and found that I miss two of four plugins packages, unofficial and unsupported[on tuxfamily.org]. Pick the leftover packages.
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ sudo aptitude install compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 139kB of archives. After unpacking 532kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://download.tuxfamily.org feisty/eyecandy compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial 0.0.2~git20070902+3v1ubuntu0 [92.1kB]
Get:2 http://download.tuxfamily.org feisty/eyecandy compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported 0.5.2~git20070831+3v1ubuntu1 [47.1kB]
Fetched 139kB in 5s (24.4kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial.
(Reading database ... 113055 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial (from .../compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial_0.0.2~git20070902+3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported.
Unpacking compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported (from .../compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported_0.5.2~git20070831+3v1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial (0.0.2~git20070902+3v1ubuntu0) ...
Setting up compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported (0.5.2~git20070831+3v1ubuntu1) ...
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$
As you see pic on the right, now in my "CompizConfig Setting Manager" two more effects are added, 3D Windows and Cube Atlantis. Actually it has more added to other section but I can not remember which one are new.

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