I was using ubuntu 2d till now along with compiz. now i installed gnome-shell and after that compiz effects are not working. Is there any way to get compiz effects to work,else is there any other similar packages?
Ubuntu – Gnome-shell and compiz
12.04compizgnome
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GNOME Shell uses its own compoziting window manager called Mutter. According to Owen Taylor's mail it is not possible to use an alternative window manager.
To try and make GNOME Shell integrate with multiple window managers would either greatly constrain the user interface vision or greatly increase the amount of work involved. The power of the GNOME shell approach is that we are working within the desktop scene graph of the window manager/compositor.
Using Compiz to create a GNOME desktop using GNOME applications, the GNOME control-center, and so forth will of course remain possible. We have no current plans to create hard dependencies on GNOME Shell within the GNOME desktop (just as there are no hard dependencies on gnome-panel now.)
http://www.mail-archive.com/desktop-devel-list@gnome.org/msg15587.html
CCSM (short for CompizConfig Settings Manager) lets you configure the settings of Compiz. Unity is a plugin of Compiz whereas gnome-shell is a plugin of mutter. That's why changes made using CCSM doesn't have any effect on gnome-shell.
If you want to customize gnome-shell, you can try gnome-tweak-tool . To install it, search for 'gnome-tweak-tool' in the software center or by running this command in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
You can also try the gnome-shell extensions that let you customize the various features of gnome-shell. To try out these extensions, visit the official gnome-shell extensions site.
Best Answer
Compiz and gnome-shell do not go hand-in-hands together... Third heading in the link provides more insight about it: https://live.gnome.org/GNOME3Myths
Also the mailing list post about compiz and gnome-shell might be of interest for you: http://www.mail-archive.com/desktop-devel-list@gnome.org/msg15602.html
So as far as I know, you can't get effects equivalent to those provided by compiz in gnome-shell... You might try to look for the gnome-shell extensions with similar functionality.