Re: [Cooker] Re: [RPM] cooker contrib/release compiz-fusion-plugins-extra-0.0.1-0.20070724.1mdv2008.0

[Colin Guthrie]

Scott Chevalley wrote:
> I heard about a new window switching plugins that mimicks vista deck and
>  mac osx coverflow... is there any chance of getting that packages in
> here soon?!  :)

Nope!

Things move so fast there that by the time I've either created a package
for it or adjusted a specfile to shoehorn it into an existing package
that it's not officially part of, that it could have already been
incorporated into a different upstream package!

It's really, really easy to compile it yourself. You don't even need to
be root!

Just:

git clone git://anongit.opencompositing.org/fusion/plugins/shift
cd shift
make install

Job done :) It just puts them in your ~/.compiz/ folder.

You'll perhaps need some devel libs installed so shout if you get stuck
and can't work out which ones you need.... (definitely compiz-devel and
pango-devel in this case)

Ditto goes for the other plugins that are not part of the official packs
(like gears or aquarium for example).

Get the git URL from the gitweb page:
http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/

In the future you may have to clean out your ~/.compiz/ folder of old
libraries installed in this way.

Good luck :)

Col

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