Some of my favorite Compiz settings aren't enabled by default. They actually help me be more productive (rather than just making my computer act like a cracked-out Mac). In no particular order, here are my favorites:
Desktop Cube (with or without the rotating cube)
I set my desktop to have four columns and one row because I use the rotating cube. To be honest though, the standard 2x2 configuration would work just fine as well. Don't forget to configure your hotkeys for moving between desktops and moving windows across desktops. Adding 3 more areas to organize your windows is a good thing. You might forget where one or two apps were so I recommend thinking of them in terms of general categories (entertainment, programming, etc.).
Shift Switcher
I like being able to preview windows I'm tabbing between. This option is helpful when there are a lot of windows open in the current desktop. Similar to Apple's flipping in Finder.
Grid
Lets me use hotkeys to resize windows and toss them to designated areas of the screen. I missed MaxTo after I switched to Ubuntu. This is actually a slightly more useful window manager. Especially when combined with Shelf.
Shelf
Visually scales a window down rather than requiring the user to resize the dialog/window. It also doesn't force to you lose any dialog information when resizing your window. In fact, I'm using to write this blog post in a really tiny version of Firefox.
Others
There are probably a bunch of other configurations I'm using that I haven't mentioned here. These are just a few of my favorite productivity features I've found. What are your favorites?
Desktop Cube (with or without the rotating cube)
I set my desktop to have four columns and one row because I use the rotating cube. To be honest though, the standard 2x2 configuration would work just fine as well. Don't forget to configure your hotkeys for moving between desktops and moving windows across desktops. Adding 3 more areas to organize your windows is a good thing. You might forget where one or two apps were so I recommend thinking of them in terms of general categories (entertainment, programming, etc.).
Shift Switcher
I like being able to preview windows I'm tabbing between. This option is helpful when there are a lot of windows open in the current desktop. Similar to Apple's flipping in Finder.
Grid
Lets me use hotkeys to resize windows and toss them to designated areas of the screen. I missed MaxTo after I switched to Ubuntu. This is actually a slightly more useful window manager. Especially when combined with Shelf.
Shelf
Visually scales a window down rather than requiring the user to resize the dialog/window. It also doesn't force to you lose any dialog information when resizing your window. In fact, I'm using to write this blog post in a really tiny version of Firefox.
Others
There are probably a bunch of other configurations I'm using that I haven't mentioned here. These are just a few of my favorite productivity features I've found. What are your favorites?
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