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Oh boy that's a blast from the past. I really liked the Compiz Fusion cylinder effect with windows 3D hovering, I used that effect for both alt-tab and virtual

Oh boy that's a blast from the past. I really liked the Compiz Fusion cylinder effect with windows 3D hovering, I used that effect for both alt-tab and virtual desktop switching. It looked something like this, although I'm pretty sure mine was anti-aliased more effectively: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NPnXddu4LL4/UPRszBHQynI/AAAAAAAAAU8/ySnnfa-E2Q8/s1600/compiz-fusion.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NPnXddu4LL4/UPRszBHQynI/AAAAAAAAAU... Now I just use 3 monitors (| - - is a great layout, highly recommended) and switch windows using what was called Exposé and is now called Mission Control on macOS. I miss the experimentation; wobbly windows, flames, all sorts of zoom effects, and edge attraction effects.

MegaDeKay 3y ago
Effects like Wobbly Windows and Magic Lamp are still in KDE waiting for you to come back :-) Those are built in, and more effects are available for download from the settings window at the click of a button. I really appreciate the sense of whimsy that comes with stuff like this. Best of all, it is there if you want it and not if you don't.
- CSSer 3y ago
  How about the window going up in flames on close?
  - tekeous 3y ago
    We have that too, it’s called BurnMyWindows in the KDE effects repo
    - CSSer 3y ago
      That’s such a blast from the past. It may seem frivolous, but it’s funny what draws a kid in. I spent a lot of time in middle school fussing with drivers to get hardware acceleration to run on crappy secondhand laptops, all so I could play with the cube, wobbly windows, and the flame effects. I had no idea it was doing this at the time, but it helped familiarize me with POSIX concepts that later gave me a jumpstart on my career.
- silisili 3y ago
  For anyone curious, all this is available on Gnome as well via extensions.
dkersten 3y ago
I used to use the “cube” but with six or seven sides (so whatever a hexagonal or septagonal cylinder is called), with the faces being transparent so you can see the windows floating in the background. Nowadays I use an open laptop with two external monitors, with the laptop out to the left, my largest monitor in landscape in the center and a portrait monitor to the right: - — |
- twicetwice 3y ago
  I have settled on exactly the same setup! It's pretty great. My right-hand monitor is a terminal 24/7. My center monitor is code—I used to think I'd want vertical for code, and it is nice sometimes, but at my current job I benefit from having several files open side-by-side more than I benefit from seeing more of one file. It's a 4k monitor and I have it fractionally scaled so that I can read comfortably, but I can also fit up to four files side-by-side on the screen at once. It is very useful. And then the laptop screen is for Slack, docs, AWS dashboard, whatever is useful at the time.
  - dkersten 3y ago
    I use the right hand monitor for slack and documentation. Sometimes a terminal, very occasionally code that I’m reading (not writing). I also used to think is want a portrait monitor for code but it turns out that the Jack of horizontal resolution actually bothers me for code. Maybe with a higher resolution monitor it would be better, but for now, I prefer to use a large but landscape monitor for code.
- stavros 3y ago
  I will never understand people who have a landscape monitor as their main. The only thing landscape is good for is videos, everything else is portrait (including many videos). The only semi-reasonable excuse I've heard is that people use a landscape screen as three or four portrait screens (so four windows side by side on it), but then just get a portrait screen and split it four ways also. You can pry my | - from my dead fingers.
  - 3y ago
Vinnl 3y ago
For those on Linux (on GNOME and KDE, at least), experimentation is still alive and well in https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows#readme https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows#readme.
- pantalaimon 3y ago
  You can still use Compiz with Mate to this day
  - mike_hock 3y ago
    And it still crashes occasionally, so you have to set a fallback WM and be prepared to run compiz --replace again when the windows stop wobbling.
lloydatkinson 3y ago
Unfortunately experimentation, at least at organisations, has been optimised out of existence by a combination of shareholder interests and agile cultists.
ruined 3y ago
kororaa gang. got me into gentoo. i had a 21in viewsonic crt that was factory specced to 1600x1200, but kororaa would default to overdrive at 1856x1392. it had a bit of trouble with focus at that rez - the field was curved, and the screen was flat. i could have perfectly sharp edges, or a perfectly sharp center, but either way it was sharper than the factory max. i dumped the modelines and carried them with me in my heart. don't think i had that much vertical resolution again until i picked up my first 5k display in 2019.

MegaDeKay 3y ago

Effects like Wobbly Windows and Magic Lamp are still in KDE waiting for you to come back :-) Those are built in, and more effects are available for download from the settings window at the click of a button. I really appreciate the sense of whimsy that comes with stuff like this. Best of all, it is there if you want it and not if you don't.

CSSer 3y ago
How about the window going up in flames on close?
- tekeous 3y ago
  We have that too, it’s called BurnMyWindows in the KDE effects repo
  - CSSer 3y ago
    That’s such a blast from the past. It may seem frivolous, but it’s funny what draws a kid in. I spent a lot of time in middle school fussing with drivers to get hardware acceleration to run on crappy secondhand laptops, all so I could play with the cube, wobbly windows, and the flame effects. I had no idea it was doing this at the time, but it helped familiarize me with POSIX concepts that later gave me a jumpstart on my career.
silisili 3y ago
For anyone curious, all this is available on Gnome as well via extensions.

dkersten 3y ago

I used to use the “cube” but with six or seven sides (so whatever a hexagonal or septagonal cylinder is called), with the faces being transparent so you can see the windows floating in the background. Nowadays I use an open laptop with two external monitors, with the laptop out to the left, my largest monitor in landscape in the center and a portrait monitor to the right: - — |

twicetwice 3y ago
I have settled on exactly the same setup! It's pretty great. My right-hand monitor is a terminal 24/7. My center monitor is code—I used to think I'd want vertical for code, and it is nice sometimes, but at my current job I benefit from having several files open side-by-side more than I benefit from seeing more of one file. It's a 4k monitor and I have it fractionally scaled so that I can read comfortably, but I can also fit up to four files side-by-side on the screen at once. It is very useful. And then the laptop screen is for Slack, docs, AWS dashboard, whatever is useful at the time.
- dkersten 3y ago
  I use the right hand monitor for slack and documentation. Sometimes a terminal, very occasionally code that I’m reading (not writing). I also used to think is want a portrait monitor for code but it turns out that the Jack of horizontal resolution actually bothers me for code. Maybe with a higher resolution monitor it would be better, but for now, I prefer to use a large but landscape monitor for code.
stavros 3y ago
I will never understand people who have a landscape monitor as their main. The only thing landscape is good for is videos, everything else is portrait (including many videos). The only semi-reasonable excuse I've heard is that people use a landscape screen as three or four portrait screens (so four windows side by side on it), but then just get a portrait screen and split it four ways also. You can pry my | - from my dead fingers.
- 3y ago

Vinnl 3y ago

For those on Linux (on GNOME and KDE, at least), experimentation is still alive and well in https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows#readme https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows#readme.

pantalaimon 3y ago
You can still use Compiz with Mate to this day
- mike_hock 3y ago
  And it still crashes occasionally, so you have to set a fallback WM and be prepared to run compiz --replace again when the windows stop wobbling.

lloydatkinson 3y ago

Unfortunately experimentation, at least at organisations, has been optimised out of existence by a combination of shareholder interests and agile cultists.

ruined 3y ago

kororaa gang. got me into gentoo. i had a 21in viewsonic crt that was factory specced to 1600x1200, but kororaa would default to overdrive at 1856x1392. it had a bit of trouble with focus at that rez - the field was curved, and the screen was flat. i could have perfectly sharp edges, or a perfectly sharp center, but either way it was sharper than the factory max. i dumped the modelines and carried them with me in my heart. don't think i had that much vertical resolution again until i picked up my first 5k display in 2019.