Why Don't You Throw Your Cube in an Aquarium? [Atlantis]

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

21Sep2008 Filed under: Apps, Eye Candy, Howto Author: 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:

Install Linux (obviously)
Install Compiz
Enable the cube, wobbly windows, and whatever eyecandy you would like
Set both cube opacities to 25
Set Skydome and turn off “animate”. Get the skydomes from here
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:

Tags: aquarium, atlantis, Eye Candy, eyecandy, Linux

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

yoyo_guru

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

robb

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

Luffer

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

Aletheia

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.

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.

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

Aletheia

erm, chown. or both.

Aletheia

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!

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

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...

Rami Taibah

actually it's "sudo apt-get install libtool" lower-case "s" in sudo :)

Rami Taibah

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

Rami Taibah

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.

Rami Taibah

Aletheia thanks for helping out :) Much appreciated!

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.

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

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'.

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

girlatastartup

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

blog comments powered by Disqus

About this blog

The Linuxologist is a blog where free software is valued, nay sought for!! While proprietary software is banished, degraded and ridiculed till the end of times.

The Linuxologist

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

About this blog

Categories

Archives

Blogroll

Recent Comments