Visual Effects (i.e., Compiz Fusion) in Ubuntu

[Random Variable]

I've read about people not having any window decorations at all (and ways to fix that problem by editing the xorg configuration file), but in my case window decorations will partially disappear (and them sometimes reappear) when windows are manipulated. It's probably my older NVIDIA video card, but some people seem to have no issues with even older cards.

 

[SickBeast]

I use an 8800GTS 320mb card without any issues. I have all of the effects turned on and everything is smooth and nice.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
I use an 8800GTS 320mb card without any issues. I have all of the effects turned on and everything is smooth and nice.

Ditto with an 8600GT. The kids' PC has a GeForce Ti4200 card and things seem to work without issue there, as well.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
I use an 8800GTS 320mb card without any issues. I have all of the effects turned on and everything is smooth and nice.

I have a MR x1600 in my laptop - some of the graphics were a little shaky - like slight delay when minimizing windows. Otherwise, they ran really smoothly.

There was a time, when I first installed 8.10 (after using 8.04 for 2 months) where the window manager would not load and all the windows would be missing their title bar and to fix it I would have to reload the window manager with the compiz-taskbar icon. I don't remember how I fixed it; might have just reinstalled Ubuntu altogether because of some other issue I had created.

 

[zerocool1]

I can't get it running. I'm using a prosavage4.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I was able to get desktop effects running perfectly fine in Ubuntu 8.04 on my old laptop with an nvidia geforce2go. I mean, it wasn't always 100% smooth and some things had to be scaled back, but it worked.

 

[kaiten]

I'm using a passively cooled 8400GS and Compiz fusion works really well at 1920x1080. The cube effect is neat.