GNOME Effects

Silentstriker · 02-23-2005, 01:05 PM

I really like the GNOME desktop, however, I recently installed Enlightnment and I like 3 things:

1) The slide effect when moving between workspaces
2) Eterm
3) The ripple effect at bottom

My question: How can I do those things under Gnome?

I downloaded Eterm, and that works fine...but the other two things I can't figure out. I am using Mandrake 10.1. I downloaded enlightenment manually, while GNOME came with the distro.

Or is this not possible?

Any help is appreciated.

Freyr · 02-23-2005, 03:08 PM

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The slide effect when moving between workspaces

Not really do able in Gnome 2.8 right now. You can use something like 3ddesktop to create a similar effect of rotating on a cube.

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The ripple effect at bottom

Still not really possible in metacity at the moment.

There are some other cool things you can do with Gnome and Xorg though such as transparent windows and drop shadows:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency

Silentstriker · 02-23-2005, 03:27 PM

Hmm, anyway to run Enlightenment on top of GNOME instead of metacity?

Freyr · 02-23-2005, 04:41 PM

Well, you could try to run the enlightenment session (I'm sorry I don't know the command for that, I think its enlightenment) in a gnome-terminal and then disable metacity and gnome-panel using the

killall -TERM metacity
killall -TERM gnome-panel

Komakino · 02-23-2005, 06:07 PM

I think xdesktopwaves will do rippling at the bottom of the screen...not sure.

Silentstriker · 02-23-2005, 07:18 PM

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killall -TERM metacity
killall -TERM gnome-panel

If I do that, Mandrake just re-starts them automatically. I can never shut them off permanantly within GNOME.

Freyr · 02-23-2005, 07:31 PM

Is it possible for you to use XDesktopWaves combined with 3DDesktop switcher to get the effect you want? I believe all of these programs run fine on top of Gnome. (I've tested XDesktopWave)

Heres a way to kill metacity:

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but by default if you kill the current window manager, gnome-session restarts it. So tell it not to:

gnome-session-properties &

Go to the Current Session tab. Find metacity in the list of running programs, and change the Style drop down box from "Restart" to "Normal". Now you can kill metacity without it immediately respawning.

killall metacity

tarheelcoxswain · 03-09-2005, 08:25 PM

or you can issue

killall metacity ; foobar

where foobar is the wm you're replacing metacity with