Ubuntu8.04 Series 4-system beautification article reproduced in: Jia Junyuan http://luckiss.blogcn.com

Do you want to make your Ubuntu more beautiful than Vista and OSX? To beautify our Ubuntu Desktop, we need to use the following software: 1. Compiz fusion 2. Emerald 3. Awn (awant window navigator) 4. Screenlets 5. Mac4lin 1. 3D desktop enabling and common settings 1. To enable this function, you must first determine whether your video card supports compiz fusion and enable the restricted driver first. Method: Enable: System-system management-hardware driver (restricted manager ), A similar interface will appear: Check the system that has been started and you may need to restart the system. After the restart, go to system-preference-appearance-visual effect. A similar interface will appear: Select "extension", and the most basic 3D effect will be displayed. To set up a 3D desktop in detail, you need to install the ccsm tool (compizconfig setting manager): sudo apt-Get install compizconfig-settings-manager and then open: system -- preferences -- compizconfig setting manager, a similar interface will appear: Here I will introduce only a few important settings and a few more practical functions. compiz fusion is constantly developing, more plug-ins are constantly being added, so more things need to be explored by yourself: 1. open "general options": Select "desktop size", set "Horizontal virtual size" to 4, "vertical virtual size" to 1, and "desktop quantity" to 4, in this way, you only need to press CTRL + ALT + left mouse drag to see a cube appears select "display setting", "texture filter" select the best, disable "Check the refreshing rate ", select "highlight" and refresh rate Set it to 200, disable "synchronize with vblank", and select "Check output" and "general options" to set it here. The remaining values are set by default. open "rotate cube" and select "normal", and then choose "edge flip **" for the first three items, and click the default value for the remaining items. Select "bindings" and set my own habits. For details, refer to: the most important settings here are "rotate Left flip" and "rotate right flip ", here, I move the pointer to the lower-left corner of the screen and set it to rotate to the lower-right corner of the screen. What are the advantages of this operation? Look at me this video will know: http://luckiss.blogcn.com/diary,13060944.shtml through this setting can be between two desktops through the mouse move fast switch, very convenient ^ _ ^, users who say that Linux 3D desktop is useless can shut up. 3. turn on "Animation" (magic lamp icon ^_^), go to "special effect Settings", and select "random animation for all events". In this way, you can see many amazing desktop effects. 4. to enable the "window decoration" function, you need to use it with emerald. Through this function, you can use the border to make the glass like Vista 5. when you move the "Windows preview" Mouse to the Bottom Bar, the window preview effect is displayed. 6. open "screenshot" so that you only need to press "Win + left mouse button pull" to capture the screen image you want to intercept, and press "Alt + prtscreen ", is it convenient to take screenshots of the current window? ^_^ 7. enabling the "video playback" function is said to enhance the video playback effect of compiz 8. open "Ring switcher" and press "Win + TAB" to quickly select the desktop program. the basic 3D settings will be used to enable the "widget layer" function. The rest of the functions need to be explored. Many people think that Vista's glass is beautiful, but compared with the border effect of compiz + emerald, Vista's glass is just a piece of cake, compiz + emerald can create a desktop border that is more dazzling and personalized. I just mentioned it a little in the 3D desktop settings. I need to enable the "window decoration" function, and then install emerald: sudo apt-Get install Emerald and then enable it: system-system settings-Emerald theme manager, you can see the following interface: first, select a favorite topic in the "topic, open "Edit topic"-"framework engine", select the "vrunner" effect from the selection engine, and then set the appropriate value in the following color and framework: then select "title bar" and there is a string of characters in "title bar object output", which is used to locate the position of the window button, for example, if the button position of a topic is not suitable for your style, you can change the string to locate the button position: Enable "emerald Settings ", select "maxmize/restore" in "double-click behavior on the title bar". In this way, you can double-click the upper border to minimize the number of windows. You can use the above settings. Create your own personalized border! ^_^ 4. Install avant-window-navigator and Awn-extras to add the following two sources: sudo gedit/etc/APT/sources. list Deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hard main Deb-Src http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hard main then sudo apt-Get update then install avant-window-Navigator-trunk and Awn-extras-applets-trunk in New Delhi, sudo apt-Get install avant-window-Navigator-trunk Awn-extras-applets-trunk or to https: // Lau Nchpad.net/awn/download the latest strongswan compiler to enable automatic awn loading upon startup. You can enable: System -- preference -- Session, create a new one, enter the name as needed, for example, enter awn, and enter avant-window-Navigator-replace &,: emerald can also use this method to automatically load with the system. You only need to enter emerald-replace in the command line & first open awn, and an interesting floating bottom border will appear under the screen, similar: right-click the AWN column and select "Preferences". On the page that appears, you can set the size of the column to install Awn-extras after installing Awn-extras, there will be more Applets in the AWN attribute items. These mini plug-ins are very fun. One of the plug-ins is very useful for weather forecasting. See the figure: It can forecast the weather in real time or even a few days later, real-time satellite cloud maps can also be observed: is it practical? ^ _ ^, Then follow me to install: first download the Awn-extras: https://launchpad.net/awn-extras/ for your awn version (TIPS: http://launchpad.net is the Ubuntu developer site, here, you can register an account to report problems encountered during the use of ubuntu, such as software bugs. You can also download the latest software in development on this website) download the Awn-extras compressed package of the corresponding version, decompress the package to the/tmp directory, enter the directory, and enter the following command for compilation and installation: (TIPS: before using the compilation and installation, you need to first build the compilation environment, use the following command to create the basic compilation environment: sudo apt-Get install build-essential) and then start the compilation and installation 1. /configure 2 make 3 sudo make install in step 1. /configure may prompt that some software cannot be found, for example," If the libgnome Development Kit cannot be found, copy the keyword libgnome, open the new idea, search for the keyword libgnome in it, and find the libgnome-related project, install all the libgnome packages with the Ubuntu symbol (note: You need to install the dev package without installing the doc package. /the first step is successful when all the missing Development Kits are installed in the configure process. The second and third steps are basically not a problem. These are the basic methods for compiling and installing Awn-extras, you can open the applet in awn's preference to select your favorite plug-in. ^_^ (Tip: After awn and Awn-extras are successfully installed, you can delete the source that was just added to the Deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hard main Deb-Src http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hard main, because that source is the developer source of ubuntu, some very new software is not stable, it is not suitable for general users.) 5. Screenlet and Widget first need to confirm that the "widget layer" function of compiz is enabled, and then install screenlets sudo apt-Get install screenlets to open: System -- preferences -- screenlets, start the screenlets manager, right-click the screenslet icon and select launch screenlets. For example, if you select "Notes", a convenient article will be opened. Right-click the article and choose "window-widget". It will disappear, press the F9 key to see what will happen? Pai_^ more screenlets can be used to open the screenlets manager, which can be connected to the screenlets repository and select your favorite gadgets. Sat. With mac4lin beautify icon with the theme 1. Install Mac theme first to download mac4lin compressed package,: http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php? Group_id = 204373 contains three documents. Part1 is the topic document, Part2 is the icon document, and Part3 is the wallpaper document. Extract the Part1 file, which contains many documents. The most important one is the GTK metacity theme directory. Right-click on the desktop and choose "Change desktop background"> "theme"> "Install, install the mac4lin_gtk_v0.4.tar.gz file under the GTK metacity themedirectory. The system will ask you if you want to use a new topic, select Yes, or you can open the topic-custom-control, and you will find that mac4lin_gtk_v0.4 is added. Click this item, the desktop will use the Mac topic. Open System -- preferences -- emerald theme manager, click "import" in the topic, and then install two Mac for Emerald themes in the Emerald theme directory, when installed, two more emerald themes will be added. select one of them to become the Mac-style border ^_^ 2. open the installation Mac icon: System -- preference -- appearance, click "Install", and select the Part2 compressed package to install the Mac icon, and then open: appearance-topic-custom-icon, select "" mac4lin_icons_v0.4 in it to use the Mac icon 3. after changing the default Mouse shape, you can select an interesting new mouse pointer when you open the following two steps: appearance, topic, custom, and pointer. on the logon page for installing Mac, go to system> System Management> logon WINDOW> Local. Add the documents in the directory of the running Part1. The new logon topic mac4lin_gdm_v0.4: 5 appears. install MAC for GTK splash first install a tool: sudo apt-Get install gtweakui and then open the system -- preference -- gtweakui-session, select the option, and then click "Login welcome screen ", select Part1 extract directory GTK login splash directory in the picture can be the want to get more Linux beautification information, you can visit this URL: http://www.gnome-look.org Summary: Through the above settings, you should be able to create a superb 3D desktop of your own style, but you need to be reminded that the more desktop effects, the slower the system will be, but you can rest assured that, the current mainstream hardware configuration to deal with Linux Desktop effect is more than enough, unlike Vista, such a monster to open a small glass effect all need high-end graphics card ^_^