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 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!
The cube is planned to be reintroduced in KDE 6
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.
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.
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 😁
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).
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.
@kratoz29 The linux desktop on a LSD screen
