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I'm curious if there's a way to enable the more fun UI features in Ubuntu 11.04 that were available in previous versions. The effects I'm most curious about is the wobbly windows and the alt tab program switcher that looked like a rolodex. Those things were delightful. I've been reading about the compiz tool and since I'm a pretty noob user, I don't think I want to risk destroying my desktop for a chance to get these effects back.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
I understand what you are asking but I don't know of any way to do exactly what you are asking, however with Unity you can press Super + [NUMBER] to show the most recently open applications in a group and then the same combination again to show all of the open windows of that app, using the scale plugin.
e.g. Chromium is the second app down in my launcher and if I were to be currently in a different app but wanted to switch to Chromium I would press Super + 2 and I would be there, I could then press it again and it would show all of my windows.
Well I just did this thing and it worked for me.
Here's the way:
gconf-editor, known as Configuration Editor to enable wobbly plugin without using CCSM./apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/.
Best Answer
You apparently can enable this feature by installing Ubuntu Tweak and going under Desktop > Compiz Settings > Enable wobbly windows, no CCSM required. You can download an appropriate .deb for Ubuntu Tweak from this Launchpad page (I'd recommend getting the latest Natty .deb, which currently looks like
ubuntu-tweak_0.5.14-1~natty1_all.deb).Note: I have not tried this solution myself; it may or may not mess Unity up, though I'd assume that if the option is available in 11.04's version of Ubuntu Tweak then it was at least lightly tested to work. I discovered this solution from a screenshot on this blog post.