Interviews and Compiz-Fusion

Interviews

I still have a couple of interviews to put up from the Fedora 8 release cycle, and I will get them up eventually! Included in this selection of interviews is one about SELinux and another about IcedTea, both of which rock…

Things have gotten a little bit hectic here lately, now that I actually have dead-lines to get work done by. Still, can’t complain because I’m enjoying myself hugely: the course is great; the people are great; my back is getting better!

Compiz-Fusion

Secondly this evening, Compiz-Fusion rocks Just for pure bling the expo plugin is super cool, and then there’s the grouping of application windows together, which I think might even be useful for when I’m writing an essay with notes on one side and essay on the other!

There is a small, known, bug in Fedora 8 which made it a little tricky to figure out how to get compiz-config-settings-manager to work properly. Just in case you’re wanting to play with Compiz-Fusion and haven’t figured this out yet, here’s what you need to do:

1. Install compiz-fusion-extras, compiz-fusion-gnome, compiz-manager and ccsm.
2. In a default Fedora 8 install, ccsm won’t have any effect. The workaround is to add compiz-manager to your list of start-up programs in Gnome.
3. Play with all of the settings in ccsm!

And finally, a gratuitous screenshot of the expo plugin running on my Fedora 8 system - no more spinning cubes :p