Compiz Fusion Plugins
Introduction
Configuring CompizFusion's plugins can be done using CompizConfig. The main problem using this tool is it does not give much help what the plugins do. The focus is more on usability than the wow-factor. The defaults are very ok for most users, so mostly the short description and the interesting configuration-options are discussed.
Since writing this page takes a lot of time, I will write it paragraph by paragraph.
General
General options
Here we can change general options. The pages "General" and "Display Settings" focus on the balance between usability, performance and quality.
Commands
Say you want to have a shortcut key for running 'qcad'
- In the commands tab command line 0 enter qcad
- In key bindings click enable
- In the pop-up window click Alt and Ctrl then click on Grab key combination
- enter alt+ctrl+q
- Now when you open a terminal window and type alt+ctrl+q you will get qcad
Gnome Compatebility
Accessibility
ADD Helper
Color Filter
Shows the screen or a window in i.e. gray-scale, inverse colors ("negative") or another scheme. See also "Negative".
You know this filter from your digital photo-camera, where you also have negative, sepia and nightview. It is more a fun-factor (when using 'grayscale' or 'sepia', but 'negative'/'negative-green' can be very useful when you need to work at night and don't want to be blinded by the fresh white background of an office-application.
Negative
Unlike "Color Filter" it only has one filter for a negative screen.
Opacify
Zoom Desktop
Enhanced Zoom Desktop
Actually the "enhanced" part is the configuration. Most configurations you will not use, except "Specific Zoom". If not already, attach key-combinations for the 3 zoom-levels ("<Super>1", "<Super>2" and "<Super>3" are common; that is "Windows-key" plus 1, 2 or 3). Since full-screen movies take a lot of processing-power in Flash, we can use this to zoom to Youtube-level. It depends on the screen-resolution what the best zoom-level is.
Another preference is the animation-speed. Compared to other plugins, zooming is rather slow. Default is 25, but if you feel like waiting when zooming is finished, try 40.
Desktop
Clone Output
Desktop Cube
Desktop Plane
Desktop Wall
Expo
Fade to Desktop
Rotate Cube
Show Desktop
Viewport Switcher
Widget Layer
Effects
Animations
Blur Windows
Cube Gears
Cube Refelction
Fading Windows
Minimize Effect
Motion Blur
Paint fire on the screen
Refelction
Trailfocus
Water Effect
Window Decoration
Wobbly Windows
Extras
Annotate
Benchmark
Screenshot
Splash
Window Previews
Image Loading
JPEG
Png
Svg
Text
Utility
Crash Handler
Cube Caps
Dbus
Glib
Inotify
Regex Matching
Resize Info
Scale Addons
Scale Windo Title Filter
Userspace File System
Video Playback
Workarounds
Window Management
Application Switcher
Extra WM Actions
Group and Tab Windows
Move Windows
Place Windows
Put
Ring Switcher
Scale
Shift Switcher
Snapping Windows
Windows Rules
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