1.- Open your terminal and change ti super user
su - (after this, press enter and type your root password)
2.- type in your terminal the next commands to install the complete suite of compiz, by default Fedora has the compiz and compiz-gnome, so you can just delete the first 2 parameters:
Complete Suite (If you don’t have compiz):
yum install compiz compiz-gnome emerald emerald-themes fusion-icon compiz-fusion-extras compiz-fusion-extras-gnome compizconfig-backend-gconf
Minimal settings (This is just what I need with the default Fedora 13 installation):
yum install compiz-fusion-extras compiz-fusion-extras-gnome compizconfig-backend-gconf
And if you want to have the Menus and Windows Transparency open your CompizConfig Setting Manager under the System->Preferences menu and go to the Opacity, Brightness and Saturation section and add the next line to the menu:
Tooltip | Menu | PopupMenu | DropdownMenu
And after this, your are good to go and try your new desktop effects provided by Compiz, here are some keyboard shortcuts. Enjoy
| Desktop Effects1 | Keyboard Shortcuts |
|---|---|
| Rotate Cube | Mousewheel on Desktop |
| Switcher2 | Alt + Tab |
| Shift Switcher3 | Super + Tab (2 modes: flip and cover) |
| Ring Switcher | Super + Tab – overrides Shift Switcher |
| Expo | Super + E (toggle) |
| Film Effect | Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow4 |
| Rotate Cube Manually | Ctrl + Alt + Left Mouse Button |
| Scale Windows | Alt + Shift + Up Arrow |
| Show/Clear Desktop | Ctrl + Alt + D (toggle) |
| Snapping Windows | Move a window across workspaces5 |
| Screenshot | Super + Left Mouse Button |
| Zoom In/Out | Super + Mousewheel |
| Transparent Window | Alt + Mousewheel |
| Resize Window | Alt + F8 |
| Move Window | Alt + F7 |
| Add Helper | Super + P |
| Widget Layer | F9 (toggle) |
| Water Effects | Shift + F9 (toggle) |
| Fire Effects: On | Super + Shift + Left Mouse Button |
| Fire Effects: Clear | Super + Shift + C |
| Annotate: Draw | Super + Left Mouse Button |
| Annotate: Start | Super + 1 |
| Annotate: End | Super + 3 |
| Group: Select Window(s) | Super + S |
| Group: Group Windows | Super + T |
| Group: Ungroup Windows | Super + U |
| Group: Flip Windows | Super + Right or Left Arrow |
1 Effects have to be enabled to see results.
2 To see the full effect, have multiple windows or programs open.
3 To configure: Go to Advanced Desktop Effects Settings.
4 Use left and right arrow thereafter to move to workspaces.
5 Disables Wobbly Windows.
Source: Voices in my Head (and Google)
