Jealous See

[alexandgruntz]

Meh. I'm not jealous of you Linux users.

I managed to do this in less than 5 seconds.

[taha116]

alex... Tisk tisk...
Thats the most powerful thing vista has.... Just the scroll thing... and that is ony good for swiching windows and almost no one uses that feature cuz u have to click an extra button for it each time but i believe those features with linux are more live and stay.

I have vista on my PC and Linux on my pentium 3... if my brother would let me id install linux on his quad core but hes a window hugging nub.

[ichwar]

That's just toggling through your windows on one desktop. That's child's play. Can you create more than one desktop and move through them at will in efficiency and style? That's the true test of a good desktop.

[ichwar]

alex... Tisk tisk...
Thats the most powerful thing vista has.... Just the scroll thing... and that is ony good for swiching windows and almost no one uses that feature cuz u have to click an extra button for it each time but i believe those features with linux are more live and stay.

Very true, the effect that I used in my screen shot can be triggered by just a motion (that's right a motion) of the mouse!

[taha116]

Agreed 250% with Ichwar...

BTW what distro are you using? And if you have anytihng installed to enhance linux then what is it? BTW what about grpahics card... I have a 256MB 86 series Nvidia ? Is that more than enough?

[ichwar]

I'm using ubuntu 9.04 64-bit. It installed with these capabilities but I had to install compizconfig to customize them. Your graphics card should be fine.

To install compizconfig, go to Add/Remove under Applications then from the drop down box labeled Show change the selection to All Available Applications. Then search for compizconfig in the search bar!

After it's installed, compiz config will be under System>>Preferences. It's fifth from the top for me.

[taha116]

??? So on my P3 i also have linux ubuntu 32bit... Why dont i get such options (My grpahics card isnt much more than 32 probably)

[ichwar]

Did you install compizconfig?

[Sharky]

That's just toggling through your windows on one desktop. That's child's play. Can you create more than one desktop and move through them at will in efficiency and style? That's the true test of a good desktop.

I still haven't found a use for multiple desktops on one screen. Multiple monitors is definitely a good thing, if only for having monitor 1 displaying video, monitor 2 showing what I'm working on, and monitor 3 for stuff like MSN etc. Back in the day when I had a monstrously big desk.
No, for me, multiple desktops on a single screen is pointless, and the desktop cube is trying too hard!

Very true, the effect that I used in my screen shot can be triggered by just a motion (that's right a motion) of the mouse!

And how often do you trigger that accidentally?

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Whilst X11 does allow for some nice looking effects, let's not forget that the true power of linux comes from using the command line!