Ever wondered how to make your Ubuntu desktop more spiffy? It's easy when you enable the desktop effects through Compiz Fusion, and I made a quick tutorial will to show you how. If you don't know, Compiz "aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness." - Compiz Website Here's how you get started: First we will enable Compiz by going to System-----Preferences------Appearance----Visual Effects and choosing the "Extra" radio button. Then we will open a terminal and install ccsm.. http://twurl.nl/1ovq8x for the rest of the text version of the video, including the commands. Thanks for all your input and support! Beryl merged with Compiz-Fusion, for those who have asked.