ubuntu Eye Candy
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Possibly Unstable Eye Candy
* Compiz - Provides smooth, 3D animated window movement, desktop switching, ‘expose’ like application switching, transparent terminals, and more, including simple graphical configuration tools.
* GnomeLaunchBox: Mac OSX-style application launcher
* WallpaperTray: Picks a particular wallpaper when you log in, or regularly.
Older Eye Candy
The following eye candy has been superceded by more modern / stable equivalents, many of which come with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake).
* Upower: add a boot-up splash screen to Ubuntu (Ubuntu now includes a splash screen by default. Additonally, Upower is no longer in development, having been replaced by Splashy.
* QuickTips: Tip #2: Replace the Gnome foot on the Applications menu with the Ubuntu logo (Ubuntu 5.10 and newer do this by default)
* Expocity - Howto Expose-like functionality from Apple’s OSX (Compiz performs this better)
* Skippy - Howto for another Expose-like functionality from Apple’s OSX (Compiz performs this better)
* DropShadows: adding Drop Shadows to your desktop windows (Compiz performs this better)
* 3ddesktopHowto: 3d Desktop installation (Xgl performs this better)
* LuminocityHowTo: install Luminocity now in order to try out the new effects (Compiz performs this better. Luminocity is no longer in development.)
* TransparentTerminals: Transparent terminal windows on your desktop (Compiz performs this better)
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