Customize Compiz Fusion Animations on Linux Mint (Xfce & Mate)

How to customize Compiz Fusion Animations for Multiple effects, we go deeper into settings and complexity as we progress along during the video. This covers Xfce and Mate but not Cinnamon.

Give Application windows there own open/close and min/max animations, similar for the menu.
Getting down into the settings of Compiz to create custom animations for windows, menus and more.
It takes a little time to wrap ones head around it but once you play around for a while it all makes sense and you start to make the connections of how it all fits together.

There is a hierarchical order with groups of ‘windows’ and/vs individual applications, is Compiz calling just that window or a group that its in. Hopefully once you've seen the basics you can begin to explore further.

This is the deepest that I have delved into Compiz settings thus far and about the limit of my knowledge to date. Most of the animations shown have been intentionally slowed down for the video. I have several other videos showing setting up things such as the Cube and other desktop features on my YouTube channel.

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Do at your own risk, especially the advanced non-default animations, however I had no real issues.
This video was recorded using a virtual machine and it even handled the animations rather well.
Linux Mint 21.1 Xfce (Beta) was the donor operating system in the video, Mate desktop should be the same and other Distro's if Compiz is present and has the same settings should function the same however I haven't tested any other systems.

The occasional background noise is mostly my broken seat squeaking...nothing bad happening!

Resources:
http://wiki.compiz.org/WindowMatching
http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/
http://wiki.compiz.org

Timestamps:
00:00 – 08:45 Intro and set up
00:00 Intro
01:03 Activate Compiz, logout/in (incl Mate Desktop) Mundane stuff
03:15 CCSM, Effects, Animations
03:52 Random Animations All Events (general random/easy method)
04:47 Open Animation Tab (windows menus)
06:00 Copy & Paste settings Syntax (double and triple clicking, mouse wheel paste)
07:30 Back up Syntax
07:40 Self populating settings

08:46 Begin creating new effect events
08:55 Creating first effect event for 'normal' 'menu' & ‘tooltip'
10:05 Push effect setting to top for first preference (hierarchy)
10:31 Testing the 'menu' for magic lamp effect (and windows)
11:10 Tooltip cant do magic lamp not all effects work on all events
11:23 Change effect to sidekick
12:18 Random effects and check marks
13:10 Close Animation Tab (windows menus)
15:26 Minimize Animation Tab
16:30 Unminimize Animation Tab
17:19 Focus Animation Tab 'Dodge' effect
18:11 Effect Settings Tab, Random Animations All Events, change animation parameters
18:44 Open Animation Tab, individual windows/menu animations set up,
19:21 Individual window animations 'Mugshot' window matching, window ID,
21:02 Individual window animations 'Bulk Rename' window matching, window ID, how to ID
24:24 Identify windows by its Title, Role, Name, Class, Type, ID
26:40 Example 'task-manager' or 'xfce4-taskmanager' what to look for to ID windows
27:19 'Disks' ID as Name 'gnome-disks' also as a 'type=normal' (hierarchy)
29:00 Individual window animation hierarchy IE its name vs a group it belongs to
29:50 Using 'Random' for on the fly changes/adjustments
31:02 Trial & error to find out windows name/class/id etc
31:22 Animation Add-ons module 'Explode'
35:00 Animations Plus module 'Helix'
36:23 Animations Experimental module 'Black Hole'
38:00 Adding modules adds more options for 'Random' in settings
38:53 Outro 'Black Hole' ending (awesome ending)