Fancy Desktop effect in Ubuntu 7.10

I had gone through setting up extra effects in ubuntu before with compiz, custom xorg configuration, and so forth.

With 7.10 I have just tried it again, and it couldn’t be easier.

I simple installed two packages as per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/Xgl/simple and restarted the windowing system (CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE - beware, save anything you want to keep and probably best to close all apps and logout first)

Thats it. Navigating to System -> Preferences -> Appearance I can upgrade to extra nice effects. At the minute I am having great fun with the ‘rotating cube desktop’.