ubuntu 3D Desktop (Cube) (KDE & Compiz Fusion & CairoDock) fullHD 1080p

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Cites simias · 2018-10 · on “Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006”

When 3D acceleration became mainstream and people started developing 3D-accelerated desktop it was very trendy to have a bunch of pointless 3D stuff going on. I think it was around that time that compiz and its 3D burning cubes and other mostly (but not entirely) useless eye candy were released: [this video] I think there were two reasons for this: - It looked cool, even if sometimes very impractical. Now it's a bit mundane but at the time it was like breaking the 3rd wall, we were so used to the flatness of the desktop that it was really weird to view it as a 3D object. - Apple and Microsoft were in no rush to bring these features to their commercial OSs (and proably for good reasons, MS tried t

Cites nabla9 · 2018-11 · on “A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface”

These type of desktop modifications were very popular in Linux in late 90's early 2000's. My Linux KDE desktop featuring Tron Legacy theme [LINK] You can also totally overdo the cool effects. [this video] [LINK] [LINK]

Cites diffeomorphism · 2022-11 · on “I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration”

Translation: That sounds like you caused this problem for yourself by choosing debian stable. emerald, compiz: fairly famous window managers/compositors everyone used to use, e.g. [this video] > how is this related to window borders compiz is famous for including all sorts of fancy/over the top effects like windows going up in flames, so stuff like glowing window borders should be no problem at all. By now compiz seems mostly unused, but many effects are also available in kwin. For instance system settings -> desktop behavior -> desktop effects -> dim inactive Kinda the opposite of outlines, where it just dims everything else instead of highlighting one, but maybe it works for you?