Why Don’t You Throw Your Cube into an Aquarium?

Published on September 21, 2008 in Eye Candy, Software by Rami Taibah

Sausagenmuff has created a jaw-dropping Linux desktop featuring a cube, saltwater and fish. Now all of us have seen cool Compiz screenshots/screencasts, but this one takes the cake. He even called his desktop “Atlantis”, how fitting. Sausagenmuff describes how made this Desktop with 7 simple steps:

  1. Install Linux (obviously)
  2. Install Compiz
  3. Enable the cube, wobbly windows, and whatever eyecandy you would like
  4. Set both cube opacities to 25
  5. Set Skydome and turn off “animate”. Get the skydomes from here
  6. Install the fish plugin (extract to your home dir, go into that directory inside a terminal, type “make” then “sudo make install”)

Voila! This is the result of your wizardry:

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Rami Taibah the founder of The Linuxologist and a self proclaimed geek and Linux aficionado. This fall, he will be pursuing an MIMS degree at UC Berkeley, California. You can follow him on Twitter @rtaibah.

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  • http://apas.gr Apostolos

    Very Cool! I have also compiz but this rocks!

  • http://chris.cotter.me Chris

    Now that is about cool

  • http://hehe2.net Rami Taibah

    Indeed guys, I have seen a lot of Desktop cubes in my day, but this one is just WOW!

  • http://mynameistux.blogspot.com/ mynameistux

    I am now complete.

  • http://miladinoski.trap17.com Miladinoski

    The 5th step doesn’t work. The download link gives a 404 error. Care to fix it? :)

  • http://www.photrade.com/amrush Amrush

    And they still insist that Mac looks cooler and the new Vista looks smooth .. BAH!!

    Ok I will get me one of those .. :D ..

  • http://hehe2.net Rami Taibah

    @Miladinoski: It’ s working now, thanks for the heads up1

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  • http://slated.org/xgl_on_fc5 Slated

    What’s the name of the two tracker-mods you’re playing in xmms, especially the last one?

    Must … have … now!

    Cheers.

  • http://mrjavo.com/2008/03/29/organizing-your-ideas-before-to-write/ Mr Javo

    Nice video, I liked the music :P

  • http://slated.org/xgl_on_fc5 Slated

    OK, I found the name of the song is Magenta (Original Mix) by Arno Cost & Arias.

    Cool!

  • Jaco

    I would like to see some built-in themes, like this one, for compiz, complete with artwork. In your guide you say to turn off animate skydome, but in the video you have animate on. I like the way it looks with animate off though.

  • neal

    Never got this to work in Ubuntu Hardy Heron. When I try steps 6 and 7 I gets errors “Makefile:48 ***[ERROR] Compiz not installed”

  • http://mallegonian.b3ta.org/ Aletheia

    neal, you need to install compiz-dev and maybe some of the other compiz packages.

  • http://www.girlatastartup.wordpress.com girlatastartup

    Great vid. the 2 i’s. Informative and interesting.

  • Caleb

    ok im a noob to ubuntu. i cant seem to get the whole “make install thing to work… its in my home directory.. what exactly do i type

  • http://mallegonian.b3ta.org/ Aletheia

    Caleb, make sure you are running make install as root or with sudo. If you are using a distro that uses sudo, the command would be ‘sudo make install’.

  • gary

    hey i get error message when i try the install step:
    gg@G-Mobile:~$ cd atlantis
    gg@G-Mobile:~/atlantis$ make
    Makefile:48: *** [ERROR] Compiz not installed. Stop.
    gg@G-Mobile:~/atlantis$ make install
    Makefile:48: *** [ERROR] Compiz not installed. Stop.
    gg@G-Mobile:~/atlantis$

    any help would be cool

  • gary

    ths is what happens when i try it as sudo:
    gg@G-Mobile:~/atlantis$ sudo make install
    [sudo] password for gg:
    Makefile:48: *** [ERROR] Compiz not installed. Stop.
    gg@G-Mobile:~/atlantis$

  • http://mallegonian.b3ta.org/ Aletheia

    Gary, you need to have a successful make before make install will do anything. Make is failing because you “don’t have compiz installed” meaning you don’t have compiz-dev installed.
    Run ‘sudo apt-get install compiz-dev’ then try ‘make; sudo make install’ again.

    • http://hehe2.net Rami Taibah

      Aletheia thanks for helping out :) Much appreciated!

    • gary

      thanks for the help so far now i get this:
      gg@G-Mobile:~/atlantis$ make
      Makefile:144: *** [ERROR] BCOP not installed but is needed to build plugin. Stop.

      • http://hehe2.net Rami Taibah

        sudo apt-get install compiz-bcop

        • gary

          i hope this is the last error:
          gg@G-Mobile:~/atlantis$ make
          convert : atlantis.xml.in -> build/atlantis.xml
          bcop’ing : build/atlantis.xml -> build/atlantis_options.h
          bcop’ing : build/atlantis.xml -> build/atlantis_options.c
          schema : build/atlantis.xml -> build/compiz-atlantis.schema
          compiling : atlantis.c -> build/atlantis.lo/bin/sh: libtool: not found
          make: *** [build/atlantis.lo] Error 127
          gg@G-Mobile:~/atlantis$ make install
          compiling : atlantis.c -> build/atlantis.lo/bin/sh: libtool: not found
          make: *** [build/atlantis.lo] Error 127

        • http://hehe2.net Rami Taibah

          Sudo apt-get install libtool :D

        • http://hehe2.net Rami Taibah

          actually it’s “sudo apt-get install libtool” lower-case “s” in sudo :)

  • ruasoh

    I’m having similar problems. I make file and I get error

    “compiling : build/atlantis_options.c -> build/atlantis_options.loIn file included from build/atlantis_options.c:19:”
    and at the end:
    “make: *** [build/atlantis_options.lo] Error 1″

    I’ve been trying for 2 days to get this to work…

  • http://mallegonian.b3ta.org/ Aletheia

    Run “sudo apt-get install compiz-dev compiz-bcop libtool”, then try compiling it again.
    If it still doesn’t work, post the entire log to pastebin and a link here.

    • ruasoh

      Nevermind, I needed to upgrade a few tools. But thanks for the help! Yay fish!

    • Cayal

      http://pastebin.com/m11c2ba55

      Do I need to get rid of xulrunner-1.9? Seems rather nonsensical that I should need to remove that for the makefile to recognize compiz is installed, but meh. I’m fairly new to Ubuntu. I’m running 7.10 Hardy.

      • http://mallegonian.b3ta.org/ Aletheia

        xulrunner-1.9 shouldn’t make any difference.
        You have compiz-core and compiz-gnome installed, right? Other than that, no idea.

  • Taki

    Hy! It’s my problem! Please HELP:-)

    taki@taki-laptop:~/atlantis$ make
    linking : build/libatlantis.la/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file build/.libs/libatlantis.so.0.0.0: Permission denied
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    make: *** [build/libatlantis.la] Error 1

    What’s the problem?

  • http://mallegonian.b3ta.org/ Aletheia

    That’s weird. Run “sudo make” instead of make.
    (yes, chmod would be better, but harder to explain.)

    • http://mallegonian.b3ta.org/ Aletheia

      erm, chown. or both.

  • Ruasoh

    So, like the idiot I am, I got everything the way I like it and then decided to upgrade to Intrepid. Now I have the snow globe and everything, but when I click on the Cube Atlantis box, it unchecks itself! I’ve tried uninstalling compiz and reinstalling, using a different version of atlantis, everything. Any help? Thanks

    • http://mallegonian.b3ta.org/ Aletheia

      Did you recompile Cube Atlantis?
      Reinstalling Compiz is only going to reset the binaries and libraries, not the configuration. Try renaming the config folder (~/.compiz) then running compiz and enabling CA.

  • http://www.techietalk.co.uk Luffer

    Can't get this, the fish plugin archive is empty when I open it and the skydome is 404 file not found :(

  • http://robinferianto.com/ robb

    wow this is amazing.
    i own a linux pc, but i never know it could be THIS cool.
    awesome !!

  • yoyo_guru

    I'm sorry im new to linux but with step 6 how do i get into the directory in the terminal?