Contents 1 What is Compiz Fusion? 2 Which graphics cards are supported ? 3 Installing Compiz Fusion 3.1 Preparation 3.2 Installing graphics card driver 3.3 Configuring graphics card 3.4 Installing required packages 4 First run 5 Tips and tricks 6 References

What is Compiz Fusion?

Compiz Fusion aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness. Here are some videos featuring compiz-fusion on Pardus: <youtube>5Op46xROpgU</youtube> <youtube>pp0pPz6VGqc</youtube>

Which graphics cards are supported ?

Compiz-fusion needs AIGLX support to work properly. Currently most of (beginning from 5 year old cards) Intel, NVidia and ATI based graphics cards support AIGLX.

Installing Compiz Fusion

Preparation

Installing graphics card driver

Configuring graphics card

Installing required packages

First run

Tips and tricks

References