Sam pointed me to thread that had some build directions that he had put there. I’ve had trouble in the past getting Compiz 0.9 to run, usually with gtk-window-decorator not working. Update: This is really easy now because of Soreau’s script.
- Download Desktop.tar.gz which has the script with execute permissions and the source directory
- Delete
~/Desktop/compiz-0.9.0 if you have it
- Extract Desktop.tar.gz on your desktop (right click works) or in a terminal
cd ~/Desktop && tar -xf Desktop.tgz
- Open a terminal and type
./install_compiz_090.sh
- After it builds it can launch CCSM, which worked for me
- Run
/opt/compiz/bin/compiz++ (I didn’t need pass --replace or anything)
- Thank Soreau
Changes I made to the script:
- It uses
~/Desktop/compiz-0.9.0 for source code and that directory is in the tar empty
- It installs to
/opt/compiz instead of /opt/compiz++
There also seems to be a PPA that falkTX has created. I haven’t tried it yet, but looks promising has been reported to not work and can be added by doing this in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:falk-t-j/lucid-latest
Now you’ll either have updated versions of the packages, or renamed compiz packages (haven’t tried it yet)
Update: This got picked up by OMG! Ubuntu
Update: If you followed the guide exactly for the first few hours it was up it didn’t change directory into the build/ directory properly in the install step. Thanks to Eugeny at OMG! Ubuntu! for the tip.
Update: Much of this was replaced with Soreau’s Script, who I welcome as our Compiz overlord.