Envy Ati Driver FTW! Cube now spinnings

First of all if you bought an Ati card you are a noob. But this little tool will help you get compiz running in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy.

http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

The link has nvidia in the title because the script works for both. It detects your card, finds the best driver, and installs it correctly. After a reboot, go here

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/category/compizberyl/

It has instructions and advice on installing/choosing compiz and beryl desktop managers. I have an Ati 2600HD card and this is what I installed. Code taken from the link above:

sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager

This installs the advanced settings manager for compiz and will add an extra button in the desktop background settings. It also installs the gui under system-preferences. After that I took:

gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/hsize 4
gconftool-2 –type int –set /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/number_of_desktops 1

This pretty much makes compiz a clone of beryl. The settings and options are all the same from what I see and this makes beryl not really worth installing. It has other plugins not enabled by default that you can change in the config gui.

UbuntuForums.org FTW!