You can install compiz with XFCE and (i think) that the themes come from Emerald -

I just find it so time consuming to do all that - personally I think they have done a good job with BB out of the box but thats just my opinion of courses

Having said that wobbly windows are pretty cool - can you let me know how you get on with that? What graphics card do you have? Thats the obvious question I guess.

Also, I think I am correct in saying that XFCE was/ is designed to be a lightweight desktop environment i.e. uses as little system resources as possible - not sure how it works with compiz. Gnome used to be really good with that sort of thing back in the day when I used it with Ubuntu until they went all weird and went into Unity.

hi again,

I installed compiz, fusion-icon and emerald following this guide:
http://ubuntuportal.com/2012/06/how-to-install-emerald-window-decorator-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts.html [nofollow]
The problem is now that despite the fact i have installed all the required packages, i don't see any change in the environment nor any animation despite that CCSM (Compiz Confing Settings Manager) is enabled.
Also i executed fusion-icon and tried to reload the Window Manager but when i do that the window is losing the decorations and of course the buttons minimize, maximize and close.
Can i change something in order to successfully run the compiz?
...my graphics card is: NVidia GeForce GT540M...

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I found some paths where boot-login images are stored:
- /lib/plymouth/themes/backbox-logo : Replace here the image backbox-nologo.png and you will have a new on boot loading image
- /etc/default : Open the grub file and add the line GRUB_BACKGROUND="/image_boot.png" and then run sudo update-grub and you will have a nice graphical boot menu.
- /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops : In this path you can change the background image of the login screen by replacing: backbox-left.png and backbox-right.png
- /usr/share/icons : Here you can add an icon theme pack
- /etc/X11 : I wanted to add Alt+Shift as the default keyboard shortcut and i had to modify xorg.conf. I added the following:
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "keyboard defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard   "on"

    Option "XkbModel" "Generic 105-key (Intl) PC"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us,es,gr"
    Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection


hi again,

I installed compiz, fusion-icon and emerald following this guide:
http://ubuntuportal.com/2012/06/how-to-install-emerald-window-decorator-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts.html
The problem is now that despite the fact i have installed all the required packages, i don't see any change in the environment nor any animation despite that CCSM (Compiz Confing Settings Manager) is enabled.
Also i executed fusion-icon and tried to reload the Window Manager but when i do that the window is losing the decorations and of course the buttons minimize, maximize and close.
Can i change something in order to successfully run the compiz?
..my graphics card is: NVidia GeForce GT540M...

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right-click on fusion-icon > setting-manager > enable at least windows-decoration and all options for moving th windows
I have the same nvidia card, but for now compiz run with intel-card, 'cause all bullshit about bumbeblee and so on,,,,,

I found some paths where boot-login images are stored:
- /lib/plymouth/themes/backbox-logo : Replace here the image backbox-nologo.png and you will have a new on boot loading image
- /etc/default : Open the grub file and add the line GRUB_BACKGROUND="/image_boot.png" and you will get a nice graphical boot menu.
- /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops : In this path you can change the background image of the login screen by replacing: backbox-left.png and backbox-right.png
- /usr/share/icons : Here you can add an icon theme pack
- /etc/X11 : I wanted to add Alt+Shift as the default keyboard shortcut and i had to modify xorg.conf. I added the following:

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Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "keyboard defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard   "on"

    Option "XkbModel" "Generic 105-key (Intl) PC"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us,es,gr"
    Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection


here I can't understand your question.... what do you want to know?

The last part is not a question, is a "how to" for anyone who wants to change the boot screens or whatever... 
bumbeblee?? the truth is i don't know how to properly configure my card and what bumbeblee is (but i think this is another post).

I enabled windows-decoration with Command option emerald --replace and almost all options for moving the windows but still nothing!

Bumblebee here http://tinyurl.com/74m5m4k
Read my post above, you need to enable windows decoration inside compizconfig
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8729/istantanea2212201216090.png

open one terminal and paste output of:
compiz --replaceand
emerald --replace
I've had that problem too, are you sure that emerald are correctly installed?

do you have all this dependences?
compiz
compiz-core
compizconfig-backend-gconf
compizconfig-settings-manager
libcompizconfig0
libdecoration0
check also libemeraldengine

Quote from: weVeg on December 22, 2012, 08:00:46 PM

do you have all this dependences?
compiz
compiz-core
compizconfig-backend-gconf
compizconfig-settings-manager
libcompizconfig0
libdecoration0
check also libemeraldengine

i have all the above (and much more for compiz because of synaptics) but i don't have libemeraldengine and i can't find the command to install it and also doesn't exist in synaptics.
This command doesn't run:

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sudo apt-get install emerald libemeraldengine0
//nor
sudo apt-get install libemeraldengine
//nor
sudo apt-get install libemeraldengine0


You have to find the right tut that explain you how to install compiz, search with google! You don't have correctly installed compiz and emerald! this is your problem! don't install compiz by synaptic, doesn't work!

edit: here you can find all you need!
http://cgit.compiz.org/fusion/decorators/emerald/
http://cgit.compiz.org/

edit2: here some other useful link
http://tinyurl.com/3c6vudt
http://tinyurl.com/d6v7jg7
http://tinyurl.com/dx3p55g