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

Published on September 21, 2008 in Apps, Eye Candy 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:

About Rami Taibah

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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  • yoyo_guru
    I'm sorry im new to linux but with step 6 how do i get into the directory in the terminal?
  • wow this is amazing.
    i own a linux pc, but i never know it could be THIS cool.
    awesome !!
  • Can't get this, the fish plugin archive is empty when I open it and the skydome is 404 file not found :(
  • xulrunner-1.9 shouldn't make any difference.
    You have compiz-core and compiz-gnome installed, right? Other than that, no idea.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • erm, chown. or both.
  • That's weird. Run "sudo make" instead of make.
    (yes, chmod would be better, but harder to explain.)
  • 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?
  • ruasoh
    Nevermind, I needed to upgrade a few tools. But thanks for the help! Yay fish!
  • 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
    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...
  • actually it's "sudo apt-get install libtool" lower-case "s" in sudo :)
  • Sudo apt-get install libtool :D
  • 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
  • sudo apt-get install compiz-bcop
  • 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.
  • Aletheia thanks for helping out :) Much appreciated!
  • 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.
  • 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$
  • 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
  • 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'.
  • 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
  • Great vid. the 2 i's. Informative and interesting.
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