[Pirate07]

Before I get to the installation of Compiz Fusion we need to first make sure that you have the proper graphics driver installed. So open up the terminal and type the following

Fedora 11

Nvidia GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9 & 200 Series Cards.

su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64
reboot

For Geforce FX cards

su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64
reboot

For Geforce 4 and below

su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx-libs
reboot

Fedora 10

For GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, & 200 Series Cards

su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i386 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64
reboot

For GeForce FX cards

su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia-173xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs.i386 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs.x86_64
reboot

For GeForce 4 and below

su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx-libs
reboot

Ok now that you have your Graphics Driver installed we now can proceed to install compiz fusion. But there is just one quick check we need to make to ensure that the driver is properly installed. Open up the terminal and type the following

glxinfo |grep direct

The result should look something like this:

[root@Josh-PC josh]# glxinfo |grep direct 
direct rendering: Yes 
    GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test, GL_EXT_direct_state_access, 
[root@Josh-PC josh]# 

If you do not get the output of

Quote

direct rendering: Yes

then your graphics driver did not get installed correctly

Now its time to install compiz-fusion-release rpm for Fedora 10 & 11. First remove any previous versions that may be installed. Open up the terminal and type the following:

su
yum -y erase *compiz*
rpm -ivh http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/compiz-fusion-release-1-8.noarch.rpm

If the above method happens to fail try this:

su
yum -y erase *compiz*
yum -y install wget
wget http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/compiz-fusion-release-1-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh compiz-fusion-release-1-8.noarch.rpm
rm -f compiz-fusion-release-1-8.noarch.rpm

Installation of Compiz-Fusion for Fedora 10 & 11

Gnome Only

su
yum -y --noplugins install compiz-gnome fusion-icon-gtk compiz-bcop ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-gconf compiz-plugins-unsupported compiz-plugins-extra

KDE Only

su
yum -y --noplugins install compiz-kde fusion-icon-qt compiz-bcop ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-kconfig compiz-plugins-unsupported compiz-plugins-extra

KDE & Gnome

su
yum -y --noplugins install compiz-kde compiz-gnome fusion-icon-all compiz-bcop ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-gconf compizconfig-backend-kconfig compiz-plugins-unsupported compiz-plugins-extra

How to for Fedora 10 & 11 compiz fusion (Official Fedora Packages)

Gnome Only

su
yum install ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-gconf fusion-icon-gtk emerald compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-gnome libcompizconfig compiz-gnome compiz-bcop compiz compizconfig-python compiz-fusion-extras compiz-fusion-extras-gnome

KDE Only

su
yum install ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-kconfig fusion-icon-qt emerald compiz-fusion  libcompizconfig compiz-bcop compiz compizconfig-python compiz-fusion-extras  compiz-kde compiz-manager

For Gnome and KDE

su
yum install ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-kconfig compizconfig-backend-gconf fusion-icon* emerald compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-gnome libcompizconfig compiz-gnome compiz-bcop compiz compizconfig-python compiz-fusion-extras compiz-fusion-extras-gnome compiz-kde compiz-manager

To start compiz-fusion use fusion-icon , you will find fusion-icon in the menu under Applications/system tools/fusion-icon. ( Gnome only )
If anyone has an ATI Graphics Card and needs instructions on how to install the driver leave a comment. But I do have to say that ATI drivers require much more work to get installed and working properly.

The end result you will be able to do things with your desktop that look something like this:

Expo


Sphere


Water Effect


If you would like to have it snow on your desktop well you can do that too....


Last but not least (one of my favorites) you can paint fire on the screen



These are just a few things that you can do, there are many, many more effects that you will be able to do with your Windows, tooltips, and popout menus.

This post has been edited by Pirate07: 13 October 2009 - 10:43 PM

[noop]

Very informative tutorial! Glad you pinned this, should be extremely helpful I used to use this when it was called Beryl on Ubuntu. I would recommend installing this to anyone who likes cool effects! My personal favorites are the Expo and Sphere effects

[Pirate07]

noop, on 13 October 2009 - 09:49 PM, said:

Very informative tutorial! Glad you pinned this, should be extremely helpful I used to use this when it was called Beryl on Ubuntu. I would recommend installing this to anyone who likes cool effects! My personal favorites are the Expo and Sphere effects

I love the Expo also, its one of the things that I use the most. Its nice for finding a lost window from time to time. The sphere is nice to show off with when I have friends over that just use Windows, and I say can you do this....