Click to viewLinux users: Not only can desktop decorator Compiz Fusion add eye candy to your system that leaves Windows and Mac users drooling on their keyboards, it can seriously boost your ...

Linux Mint isn’t chasing touch interfaces, rethinking the way we use the desktop, or enacting any other grand experiment. It’s just a polished, modern Linux desktop system—and that’s why people love ...

Eeetiger is a light weight Linux distribution that’s been customized to run on the Asus Eee PC. Eeetiger is based on Puppy Linux, or TigerPup to be more precise. Puppy is a Linux distro with a small ...

If you're running the Compiz window manager on your Linux system—known as "Desktop Effects" in Ubuntu—you might notice it doesn't slide windows around smoothly, and causes occasional video tearing.

The development community behind the open source Compiz window manager is undergoing a major reorganization effort that will converge disparate branches of the project and help it overcome its recent ...

Given the rapid pace of software development in the Linux world, it is inevitable that some topics that are bleeding-edge as this book goes into production will be mainstream technology by the time ...

I've been using Compiz as my window manager of choice for years (since Beryl). The reason was primarily the features it had, like switching workspaces with mousewheel (Cube plugin), positioning ...