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In March of 2010, I finally moved from my venerable XFCE4 + Xfwm setup to a glitzy GNOME + Compiz desktop. The experiment is largely successful thus far.

==Disabling gnome-shell==

gnome-shell, from what I can tell, is launched as part of the session definition file (/usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop). You can copy this to gnome-fallback.session in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/gnome-session/sessions and run gnome-session out of .xsession without arguments, or (probably better) provide the --session argument to gnome-session and keep the modified file somewhere personal.

==Screenlets==

* The terminology is apparently "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_engine Widget Engine]"?

* Anyway, I like [http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Home screenlets.org]...for now. gDesklets?

** It's said to be a [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1314575 dead project]...

** I like the [http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/WaterMark WaterMark] screenlet

==Compiz==

* Get compiz running via <tt>compiz --replace</tt>.

** Add this to GNOME's startup applications to make it your default window manager

** Better than this command in your .xinitrc/.xsession is changing the "Window Manager" element of GNOME's Session-RequiredElements registry key.

* Enable Alt+Tab window switching via the "Application Switcher" plugin

** I don't like the zooming effect; scale it to 0x

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** Be sure the "Text" rendering plugin is enabled to get window titles

* Enable desktop backgrounds with the "Wallpaper" plugin

** You'll want disable Nautilus's attempt to manage the background: use gconf-editor and unset apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop

** Note that this will disable your desktop icons.

* Enable Ctrl+Alt+arrow virtual desktop switching via the "Rotate Cube" plugin

* "Trailfocus" handles general transparency

** Set "Window to Start Fading" to 1

** Change opacity levels of unfocused and focused windows to 60 and 95, respectively

* Cube: I use

** transparency on rotate (requires that Compiz draw wallpaper)

** Spherical deformation on rotate

** Inside-the-cube view

* App Switcher

** Maximize "Speed"

** Minimize "Timestep"

** Enable "Mipmap", "Bring to Front", "Icon", "Minimized", and "Auto-Rotate"

** Reduce "Opacity" to 10

===Other Plugins===

* I like the "animations" plugin

* The "Window Titles" plugin is useful in conjunction with [[OpenSSH|SSH]] forwarding

* Go ahead and use "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicubic_interpolation Bicubic Filtering]" if you've got the horsepower

===Keybindings===

* "General Options" -> "Key Bindings":

** Toggle vertical maximize: Ctrl+Up

** Toggle horizontal maximize: Ctrl+Right

** Disable everything else save "Close Window" (Alt+F4), "Window Menu" (Alt+space)

* "Commands"

** <tt>/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator</tt>: Alt+F1

** <tt>/usr/bin/x-www-browser</tt>: Alt+F3

==Nautilus==

* Video thumbnailing requires <tt>totem-video-thumbnailer</tt>, part of the <tt>totem</tt> package

** You'll also likely need raise the limit on thumbnailable media files; I thumbnail any local file < 1G

==GNOME Panel==

* Users of taskbars (the "Window Selector" applet) will want to look into Compiz's "Window Preview" plugin

* Transparency can be had regardless of the GTK theme if using compiz's "Opacity, Brightness and Saturation" plugin

** Add an opacity rule (I use a value of 50): "<tt>(class=Gnome-panel) & !(type=PopupMenu | Dialog)</tt>"

* I use avant-window-navigator now

==GNOME Control Center==

* Ensure hinting and subpixel ordering is optimized via a trip to the [http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ Lagom LCD Test] page

* Don't set wallpaper here if Compiz is handling it

==See Also==

* [[Xorg hell|Xorg]] page

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+In March of 2010, I finally moved from my venerable XFCE4 + Xfwm setup to a glitzy GNOME + Compiz desktop. The experiment is largely successful thus far.
+==Disabling gnome-shell==
+gnome-shell, from what I can tell, is launched as part of the session definition file (/usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop). You can copy this to gnome-fallback.session in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/gnome-session/sessions and run gnome-session out of .xsession without arguments, or (probably better) provide the --session argument to gnome-session and keep the modified file somewhere personal.
+==Screenlets==
+* The terminology is apparently "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_engine Widget Engine]"?
+* Anyway, I like [http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Home screenlets.org]...for now. gDesklets?
+** It's said to be a [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1314575 dead project]...
+** I like the [http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/WaterMark WaterMark] screenlet
 ==Compiz==
 * Get compiz running via <tt>compiz --replace</tt>.
 ** Add this to GNOME's startup applications to make it your default window manager
+** Better than this command in your .xinitrc/.xsession is changing the "Window Manager" element of GNOME's Session-RequiredElements registry key.
 * Enable Alt+Tab window switching via the "Application Switcher" plugin
 ** I don't like the zooming effect; scale it to 0x
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 ** Be sure the "Text" rendering plugin is enabled to get window titles
 * Enable desktop backgrounds with the "Wallpaper" plugin
+** You'll want disable Nautilus's attempt to manage the background: use gconf-editor and unset apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop
+** Note that this will disable your desktop icons.
 * Enable Ctrl+Alt+arrow virtual desktop switching via the "Rotate Cube" plugin
+* "Trailfocus" handles general transparency
+** Set "Window to Start Fading" to 1
+** Change opacity levels of unfocused and focused windows to 60 and 95, respectively
+* Cube: I use
+** transparency on rotate (requires that Compiz draw wallpaper)
+** Spherical deformation on rotate
+** Inside-the-cube view
+* App Switcher
+** Maximize "Speed"
+** Minimize "Timestep"
+** Enable "Mipmap", "Bring to Front", "Icon", "Minimized", and "Auto-Rotate"
+** Reduce "Opacity" to 10
+===Other Plugins===
+* I like the "animations" plugin
+* The "Window Titles" plugin is useful in conjunction with [[OpenSSH|SSH]] forwarding
+* Go ahead and use "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicubic_interpolation Bicubic Filtering]" if you've got the horsepower
+===Keybindings===
+* "General Options" -&gt; "Key Bindings":
+** Toggle vertical maximize: Ctrl+Up
+** Toggle horizontal maximize: Ctrl+Right
+** Disable everything else save "Close Window" (Alt+F4), "Window Menu" (Alt+space)
+* "Commands"
+** <tt>/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator</tt>: Alt+F1
+** <tt>/usr/bin/x-www-browser</tt>: Alt+F3
 ==Nautilus==
 * Video thumbnailing requires <tt>totem-video-thumbnailer</tt>, part of the <tt>totem</tt> package
 ** You'll also likely need raise the limit on thumbnailable media files; I thumbnail any local file < 1G
 ==GNOME Panel==
+* Users of taskbars (the "Window Selector" applet) will want to look into Compiz's "Window Preview" plugin
 * Transparency can be had regardless of the GTK theme if using compiz's "Opacity, Brightness and Saturation" plugin
 ** Add an opacity rule (I use a value of 50): "<tt>(class=Gnome-panel) & !(type=PopupMenu | Dialog)</tt>"
+* I use avant-window-navigator now
 ==GNOME Control Center==
 * Ensure hinting and subpixel ordering is optimized via a trip to the [http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ Lagom LCD Test] page
+* Don't set wallpaper here if Compiz is handling it
 ==See Also==
 * [[Xorg hell|Xorg]] page