After a year of researching Metisse and drooling at Compiz and Beryl videos on Youtube. I've finally got Compiz Fusion for KDE working on my trusty Dell Inspiron 510m. Yes, its 4 years old and only has 512MB of ram. But, it works great! Not only that, but I also managed to install it on my colleague
Caleb's IBM Thinkpad X60. A first time installing Linux on an IBM machine. It was really smooth.
Compiz installs easily and works out of the box. Just add the repo below, update and select the compiz-fusion-kde package.
- http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-etch/desktopfx/stable/ ./
If you use synaptic to install you can also pull in emerald and other compiz packages that are appropriate. Use your brains and read the descriptions to decide which ones.
By the way, has anyone out there tried virtualbox or xen on an IBM Thinkpad X60? That's next on the to do list. Any suggestions or help would be great!
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