Ubuntu – How to enable Compiz for Gnome3

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After installing Gnome 3 the Compiz plugins are not working on the gnome-shell.

Is there a way to enable the Compiz on Gnome3 shell??

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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

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Ubuntu – How to install experimental plugins for compiz

Ubuntu no longer supplies all of the experimental plugins. Up through Maverick you can use the Compiz Packages PPA and install the compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported package.

What will work with Natty and Oneiric is the procedure that can be found at UbuntuGuide. Which is to download all of the compiz plugins and rebuild them all from source. This will overwrite the plugins that are already installed via the normal Ubuntu packaging system, as well as adding the unsupported plugins.

cd ~/Downloads
sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-bcop compiz-dev \build-essential libtool \libglu1-mesa-dev libxss-dev \libcairo2-dev git-core
git clone git://anongit.compiz.org/users/soreau/scripts
cd scripts
./compiz-addons install all
nohup compiz --replace &

Enable Compiz – How to Enable Compiz in Gnome Classic

To solve this problem edit this file:

sudo nano /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-classic.session

and replace this line:

RequiredProviders=windowmanager;notifications;

with this one:

RequiredProviders=windowmanager;

Then just logout and log back in and it should work fine. This solved the problem in my case.

EDIT 1:

1) to access the gnome panel menu now you need to use "windows key + alt + right click" on panels instead of "alt + right click"

2) another issue might be "alt + tab" but you just need to reassign it in Applications -> System Tools -> System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts

EDIT 2:

3) after system updates related to GTK or gnome you might need to reinstall any "custom" drivers for your graphics card, for e.g. NVIDIA linux driver

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