Xgl eye candy for Ubuntu
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If you'd like to sample the Xgl user interface eye candy that Novell has built into Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 but you use Ubuntu, Nicholas Petreley has put together some instructions at Linux Journal.
The installation isn't for Linux lightweights who shy away from the command line. Nor is it for free software purists who refuse to use Nvidia's closed-source video driver.