(UPDATED) Who wants to be a Wizard?


You can be a Wizard with Compiz Fusion Plugin: Wizard! Wizard is the coolest effect that you can get from the developmental plugins in Compiz Fusion. Here is how to get this cool plugin:

1. You need to have these programs installed and to get them use this command: sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-bcop compiz-dev compizconfig-settings-manager build-essential libtool libglu1-mesa-dev libxss-dev libcairo2-dev git-core

2.  Next go to your folder that you created  /compiz/ which is where you use the following commands.

3. Now lets create the Wizard from source.

4. go into ~/compiz/ and copy this command: wget -O /tmp/wizard.tar ‘http://oreaus.googlepages.com/wizard.tar’

5. Now use this command to untar this tar.gz and also we can get it into the right folder:  tar -xf ‘/tmp/wizard.tar’ -C ~/compiz/

6. Now that we have everything we need to keep on going.

7. Now go to the wizard directory: cd /wizard/

8. Now there are only 3 commands left: 1) make clean 2) make 3) make install

There you have it all done and ready to be used. Here are the instructions to enable it:

1. Go to System->Preferences->CompizConfigSettingsManager.

2. Type into the search box: wizard.

3. Click on Wizard.

4. Click enable Wizard.

Now to run this crazy plugin press at the same time: Super W

And there you have it. Screenshots coming later,

Ryan Orser.

Wizard Plugin for Compiz Fusion in action
Wizard Plugin for Compiz Fusion in action

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