How to achieve the Genie effect (Mac OS) in Compiz by minimizing

The Genie effect when minimizing is well known on MacOS. In Linux, thanks to Compiz, we have a very similar effect called Magic Lamp, but it is not entirely the same because it has at least 3 waves when executing the effect. These can be removed by making a series of modifications ...

To make changes easier (which would imply having to install a hex editor and go around modifying files that are somewhat complicated to modify for more than one), enalpha has created a small C program that does this in a single step, just by executing the file.

You can download the executable from here.

You just have to give it execute permissions and run it with administrator permissions (because you need to modify a file in / usr / lib / compiz / and / usr / share / compiz /) like this:

chmod + x genie_compiz
sudo ./genie_compiz

Now I accessed the advanced compiz settings, or compizconfig settings manager, found at System> Preferences> CompizConfig Options Manager and select the magic lamp effect in minimize, and change the number of waves in effect settings. Make the necessary changes so that everything looks like in the following screenshots:

All that remains is to restart the system, or simply restart the graphical environment with:

compiz --replace &

Note: The executable creates a copy of the two modified files in the same directory where they are found but that end in .copy, in case a problem arises.

Via | enalpha