{"id":1949,"date":"2013-10-21T05:27:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T05:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2013-10-21T05:27:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T05:27:39","slug":"install-emerald-ubuntu-13-10-linux-mint-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/install-emerald-ubuntu-13-10-linux-mint-16\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Emerald in Ubuntu 13.10 &#038; Linux Mint 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/emerald-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/emerald-logo.jpg\" alt=\"emerald ubuntu 13.10\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/emerald-logo.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/emerald-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emerald is a custom window decorator which was shipped with Compiz. It decorates windows borders and title bars by installing and editing themes.<\/p>\n<p>Emerald has been discontinued, but the latest v0.9.5 works great in all current Canonical supported Ubuntu releases. Webupd8 team has created a PPA for Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04. Here&#8217;s how to install and use Emerald in Ubuntu 13.10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/emerald-ubuntu1310.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/emerald-ubuntu1310.jpg\" alt=\"emerald ubuntu 13.10\" width=\"580\" height=\"403\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/emerald-ubuntu1310.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/emerald-ubuntu1310-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Tutorial Objectives:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install Emerald Window Decorator in Ubuntu 13.10<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>To get started<\/b>, press Ctrl+ALt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to install the required packages:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install git autoconf libtool libwnck1.0-cil-dev libwnck-dev intltool libdecoration0-dev gawk compizconfig-settings-manager<\/pre>\n<p>Download the source tarball:<\/p>\n<pre>wget cgit.compiz.org\/fusion\/decorators\/emerald\/snapshot\/emerald-0.9.5.tar.gz<\/pre>\n<p>Uncompress and go into result folder:<\/p>\n<pre>tar -zxvf emerald-0.9.5.tar.gz && cd emerald-0.9.5\/<\/pre>\n<p>Run commands below one by one to compile it:<\/p>\n<pre>.\/autogen.sh\nmake clean\nmake distclean\n.\/configure --prefix=\/usr --libdir=\/usr\/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} LIBS='-ldl -lm'\nmake\nsudo make install<\/pre>\n<p><b>To enable Emerald:<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>emerald --replace &<\/pre>\n<p>To make Emerald permanently, install <b>CompizConfig Settings Manager<\/b> from Ubuntu Software Center. Open CCSM and navigate to <b>Effects -> Window Decoration<\/b>. In command area replace the default with <code>emerald --replace &<\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/window-decorator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/window-decorator.jpg\" alt=\"enable emerald in Ubuntu\" width=\"580\" height=\"241\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/window-decorator.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/window-decorator-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After all, open Emerald Window Manager from Unity Dash. Download and install themes from <a href=\"http:\/\/compiz-themes.org\/index.php?xcontentmode=103\" title=\"Emerald themes\" target=\"_blank\">compiz-themes.org<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerald is a custom window decorator which was shipped with Compiz. It decorates windows borders and title bars by installing and editing themes. Emerald has been discontinued, but the latest v0.9.5 works great in all current Canonical supported Ubuntu releases. Webupd8 team has created a PPA for Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04. Here&#8217;s how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[709,37],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-emerald-window-decorator","tag-ubuntu-13-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}